Time, use and the circumstances of reality have been making germinate in language innumerable “set phrases.” I don’t want to remember – as the author of the novel of novels said when talking about the name of the place where that knight who fought so hard and who perhaps had the same name as Miguel – lived of the infinite number of things I have heard and hear. The DLE—which also calls them “proverbial phrases”— eitheroffers two meanings of them: 1. That which is in common use and expresses a sentence as a proverb. ‘Virtue is in the middle.’ ‘Second parts have never been good.’ 2. Which, in a figurative sense and with an unalterable form, is in common use and does not include any sentence. ‘Here was Troy!’ ‘Like a glove’.
Going a little deeper into the matter and looking for three feet to the cat, to put each sheep with its partner, and as with time and a reed, even the green ones are reached, I have discovered that those “green” They also appear in other spaces, ‘at good times green sleeves’, and that the ‘green sleeves’ characterized the uniform of the executives of the Holy Brotherhood, as ‘being in Babia’ was already said a few centuries ago, in the times when that the kings of León went to rest in that beautiful region, when the now so forgotten León existed as a Kingdom.
I will speak in Christian: with the matter of language we must be alert, the use of such phrases is older than Methuselah, and there is nothing hidden that will not be well known over time. Of course not all the mountain is oregano, because I have had occasion to hear “common phrases” that did not come from lexical culture, but from grammatical malice, such as ‘the past tense was previous’ or ‘if what you want does not come to you, use the go plan’.
We must close ranks on the issue of language, close in band, because beauty alone does not set the pot.
In order not to lose money, over the years, the world of “phrases” has aroused the interest of important institutions. Two significant examples serve: the Faculty of Philology of the Complutense University, with its ‘ELE Grammar Platform’and the Association of Spanish Language Academies, which is preparing the ‘Pan-Hispanic Phraseological Dictionary’.
You will not go to bed without knowing one more thing, because you have to close ranks on the subject of language, close in band, because beauty alone does not set the pot and when you least expect it the hare jumps out. Our language will last longer than the work of El Escorial, but you have to guard what is worth like gold, you don’t have to play around with little things, you have to take matters into your own hands and have the upper hand. And here peace and then glory.
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