| OliveCak | Дата: Воскресенье, 06.12.2015, 21:00 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| Sterling qualities be unduly fussy about tiny detail railing against the pharisees, christ described them as 'blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel' (matthew, 23: 24). He meant that their obsession with legalistic minutiae was like carefully straining gnats (mosquitoes) from their drink while being oblivious to the fact that they were eating whole camels (unclean meat to the jews), i.E. They were missing the whole point of religious observance. Later translations of the bible have 'strain out', which is more accurate than strain at.
And here's another truth!
Derring-do irrevocable decision or step has been taken the die here is the little-used singular of 'dice', which is actually a plural word though usually used as a singular. In gaming, when the die/dice is thrown or cast the players must accept the consequences. Julius caesar, according to the roman historian suetonius, his biographer, used the words iacta alea esto (let the die be cast) at the crossing of the rubicon, which indicates the age of the metaphor. Shakespeare helped to popularise it: 'i have set my life upon a cast/and i will stand the hazard of a die' (richard iii, v, 4, lines 9-10).
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