When a person wants to say a warning about someone, he says: "Look, he softly stretches, but sleep hard." We will analyze today the meaning of the proverb, and also find out who prefers to prepare "uncomfortable beds" for the interlocutor.
Meaning
There is no particular mystery. The expression "softly strode, but hard to sleep" means that a person says nothing at all what he thinks. Rather, his speech has a subtext directly opposite to the content. And yet, an example is indispensable.
Network Marketing as an Example
Each person during a job search somehow got into offices, which are usually located in basements and other unpresentable places. These people are “employees of a large company”, and they offer a gullible person to become their “business partner”. Many people know how this ends: first, newly-made "employees" are offered to purchase brochures of 100 rubles each, and then more. And all because about any representative of the network company we can say: "He softly stretches, but sleep hard."
Employment when they don’t tell the whole truth
Another less extreme and unpleasant example. When a person is being interviewed for a job, the employer or his representative is strewn with nightingales about how good and successful their company is, what high demands, big salaries. But not a word sounds about what this salary is made up of, how it is formed. Not a word about delays until late at work, about the autocratic head of the department, who will tyrannize the newly arrived employee. The representative of the company, no matter what rank he is, “softly stretches” and “sleep hard”.
How to understand that a person is prepared with an "uncomfortable bed"?
To understand whether a proverb is suitable or not to describe the situation in which a person has fallen, you need to think about three questions:
- Are not too bright and cloudless prospects drawn.
- How well a person knows who presents information to him.
- And does the one who speaks with him have a vested interest in agreeing to an undertaking.
Answering these simple questions, you can understand what position a person has fallen into and is so desperate. A friend will not prepare a "hard bed." He doesn’t need it. Although it all depends on the "quality" of a friend.
Especially you need to be careful when it comes to financial and material issues.
