The less you know – sleep tight. Saying on many occasions

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the less you know the better you sleepSayings differ from Proverbs in the first place, what situations to use them a lot more. Take, for example, a well-known expression “the mosquito nose will not undermine”. Its value can range from “nobody knows” to “everything will be fine». Proverbs also necessarily contain the conclusion, and sayings can be used “word” and to be multivalued. So, in any cases, the appropriate use of the statements ‘the less you know-sleep tight" and what it means?

What prevents sleep?

This expression is quite rightly called a proverb, because no sane person will take direct action words “the less you know-sleep tight". Otherwise he'd have for healthy sleep to abandon all knowledge. But the multiplication table or the rules of the Russian language hardly anyone will lead to insomnia. What about when the knowledge that interfere with the night's rest, saying? It is necessary to resort to explanatory less he knows the betterDictionary and see lexical meaning of the word “know”. It all seems so elementary that did not occur that it may be some kind of misunderstanding. And still. For example, in the dictionary of the XVIII century “know” had eight values, the main of which was the availability of information, news about anything. In the modern Russian language in the dictionary of Ephraim, from the verb “know” five values, the first of which represents the knowledge, the second – awareness, third – familiarity with someone, fourth – the experience, the fifth value (portable) used in the sense of guess. So now it is easy to conclude that the saying “the less you know-sleep tight” urges to remain ignorant, and it is not about scientific knowledge it States, although one of the significances of this expression in the literal meaning, but with a touch of irony still exists. This will be the case if suddenly at the lesson one of the students, which is also bad student, fall asleep. In this situation the expression “the less you know-sleep tight" the verb “know” is used in the sense "to possess certain knowledge and skills”.

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saying the less you know the better you sleepAlways sleep in this the saying is it? The person's sleep is disturbed by anxiety. And it lead to all sorts of guesses, experiences and information that raises suspicion and speculation, even know someone, and it “threat” to sleep. But is this saying talking about sleep in the literal sense? When a woman buys an expensive purse, on the issue of how this waste will be treated by her husband, she answers: "know Less – better”. This phrase lady immediately makes it clear that she will not say anything to the spouse. In this case, the saying has a slightly different meaning: the desire to hide some information from the man that he didn't ask any questions, also here there is a clear desire to make my own decisions, without consulting anyone. But when the seller, changing the packaging of cheese sticker on the expiration date, says: “the Less you know-sleep tight”, he, at least, is a fraud, which can happen if you do not trouble, big trouble. So it is quite possible to assume that someone with this saying is even a crime.


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