Many idiomatic turns sound expressive. They are used in the usual sense, and few people think about the original meaning of the words that make up their basis. Sitting on a kukan means not having a sufficient degree of freedom of movement. What kind of cook is this? Maybe this is something indecent? No, it's an ordinary fishing term, meaning a rope or fishing line, on which a catch is attached, splashing in the water for the time being.
And here is another expression - "get into the glaze." The meaning of the phrase-forming word is interpreted in different ways, although the general meaning is clear to everyone. To find yourself in an uncomfortable and awkward position, to become an object of unflattering discussion, to show inattention, which caused unpleasantness - that’s what everyone means by using the expression “get into the hole”.
The culture of modern speech, unfortunately, too often relies on phraseology borrowed from the vocabulary of the lumpenized sections of society. For some time, the use of obscenities has become a special chic among the representatives of the Russian and Soviet intelligentsia, both technical and creative. There are several reasons for this. Most of this “layer” passed a harsh school of camp camps several decades ago and learned many turns from their barracks neighbors, while others, with the goal of being known as seasoned people, also began to use jargon in colloquial speech. As a result, the words of a rather innocuous initial meaning sometimes received an ambiguous interpretation.
It so happened with the expression "get into the hole." Its meaning is that a person, distracted or thinking about something extraneous, did not follow the movement of fibers, threads or bundles, weaving in a special mechanism into strong ropes. Actually, prosak is this machine, which is rather complicated in its structure, on which ship tackle was twisted in Peter's times. Modern cable technology is also unsafe and requires attention, but about three hundred years ago, any mistake would lead to sad consequences. If the threads were intertwined, then nothing else: he will pull the beard or the sleeve will be torn off, and if it is the harness, then the matter could end in tragedy. Tighten the worker in tight ropes and strangle - that's what it means to get into the hole. At least that was how our great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers understood this.
For more than two centuries of walking the expression “get into a hole”, its meaning remained the same, and royal censorship did not discern any obscenity in it. Dahl's dictionary gave him a completely logical and harmonious justification.
Unfortunately, the attraction of modern Russian speakers to the search for Freudian associations is so strong that it deserves a different, more worthy application. In one of the films of the past decade under the name "Zhmurki" (also a word used in a new sense), an extremely vulgar explanation of the expression "get into the hole" is given. Its value, according to the character, has nothing to do with cable production.
Such an “enlightenment” can lead to the exclusion of completely decent phraseology from a speech turnover and having folk roots. It is possible that in a decent society, other harmless phrases will soon become embarrassed to pronounce.
