What does the phrase "a hen pecks at the seed" mean? A hen pecks grain by grain, but it happens to be full.

07.04.2019

The proverb has a continuation that goes like this:

"A hen pecks grain by grain, and by the evening she is full."

The grains are so small - and how can you eat them?

But if you put them together, one to one, then they turn out to be many and satisfying.

You can achieve your goal without immediately rushing to the embrasure, but slowly and gently, day after day. After all, it is not for nothing that they say that water wears away stone. In my opinion, this is a perfect synonym for this proverb. And you also need to appreciate what you now have.

To whom and where can it be applied?

  • Usually it is used when talking about earnings. That even if every day, slowly earning a little, then this is no longer bad money. And if a little more there and a little more here, then you look, you will accumulate a fortune. It's better than squeamish about small earnings and nothing at all.
But the grains are also different for everyone: today a diamond, tomorrow a diamond, and as a result ...
  • And it can also be applied to cunning, dodgy people who will not miss their own - here they will snatch a piece and there, and so "little enough for the mansions."
  • It is believed that semantic load of this proverb is to be content with little, but I think that there is something deeper in it - and Something small turns into something big in the end.
  • And everything is not done right away, for this you need to stubbornly achieve your goal every day, in this case, the proverb can come up as a synonym: " Moscow was not built in a day"

    For example.

A schoolboy collects knowledge bit by bit, cities are built, even personal relationships are established - if you say one good, kind word to a person every day.


There are many synonyms for this proverb.

Grain to grain - there will be a bag,
Penny to penny - the family will live,
Drop by drop - the sea, grain by grain - a heap,
Log to log - fire,
According to the straw - a sheaf,
Fluff to fluff - perinka will come out
Pick a berry, pick a box.

And as an example, we can cite the words of the song "It's fun to walk together .." Shainsky.

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Using in his speech well-known catchphrases, for example from literary classics or popular films, we often don't even finish them. Firstly, most often we see from the face of the interlocutor that we read the same books and watched the same films, and it is clear to us that we understood each other. Secondly, many phrases are so recognizable by everyone that the second half of them have not been spoken for a long time. But another generation will come and think that all wisdom is only in this short phrase, not knowing about its understatement, losing its original meaning! This happened with many Russian sayings and proverbs. We pronounce them, thinking that we understand their meaning from the cradle, but ... Apparently, our ancestors also did not bother to finish speaking them, leaving us only their first halves as a legacy ...

Russian proverbs and sayings are centuries-old folk wisdom, sharply honed, sometimes even evil. It turns out that not all of them carry the grain that our ancestors put into them - either it is smaller or of a different grade. And all because of the lost ending!

Sometimes the meaning of such a truncated proverb is not only lost, but completely incomprehensible. And the Russian people did not throw words in vain! You just need to find and return these lost grains of wisdom and understand all the charm and sharpness of folk thought!

Let's try to look for the original meaning by returning the endings to the proverbs. Let's start with proverbs that have lost only part of their meaning: everything seems to be correct, but something is missing, something is left unsaid.

Hunger is not an aunt, won't bring a pie.

Do not open your mouth at someone else's loaf, get up early and start your own.

Take it out, put it down; give birth, give.

Small spool but precious; the stump is great, but rotten.

Young people scold - amuse themselves, and the old people scold - rage.

Everything is clear with these proverbs - there is only some reticence in them, and the returned part reinforces the meaning folk wisdom. It is more difficult with those proverbs and sayings, the meaning of which, with the loss of their second part, has completely changed!

How often we heard from adults in childhood: "IN healthy body - healthy mind!" ? It seems that the meaning is beyond doubt, and we repeat the same thing to our children, for example, forcing them to do morning exercises. But it originally sounded like this: "A healthy mind in a healthy body is rare." That's how he wrote Decimus Junius Juvenal, Roman satirist, in his Satires. This is what it means to take words out of context, which is abused by many in our time. The meaning, it turns out, was invested completely different!

Drunken sea knee-deep- it is clear that in a state of intoxication a person does not care, but in reality? Drunken sea knee-deep, and the puddle is up to your ears.

Mind chamber! So very clever man and his opinion is worth listening to. And if you return the ending? mind chamber, yes the key is lost!

Repetition is the mother of learning! Well, what else could it mean? And you ask Ovid, these are his words: "Repetition is the mother of learning and the refuge of donkeys (comfort of fools)."

The meaning of many proverbs without their lost part is generally unclear! Why would it say: Lucky, as a drowned man". But if you restore the entire text, then everything will fall into place:

Lucky like sabbath drowned man - You don't have to heat the bath! So luck is only on the side of those who drowned on Saturday - they don’t have to heat the bathhouse, saving on the household!

The hen pecks at the grain - that is, each deed is done little by little , but return the ending and everything will appear in a different light . The hen pecks at the seed , and the whole yard in the litter!

As soon as a new boss appears at work and starts innovation, someone will definitely say: "The new broom sweeps in a new way!". But the whole point is in the second half: "A new broom sweeps in a new way, but when it breaks, it lies under the bench.

When, for example, previously unfamiliar like-minded people meet, passionate about one thing or people of the same profession, they say : "Birds of a feather flock together". And in fact it was: "Birds of a feather flock together, that's why it bypasses it." After all, where one is already catching fish, the second has nothing to do!

Great is our language and wisdom of the people. Directly miracles in the sieve, and only! More precisely: Miracles in the sieve: There are a lot of holes, but there is nowhere to jump out.

The hen pecks at the grain and is full. From childhood, we hear completely opposite in meaning proverbs and sayings on the topic of Money-Wealth-Poverty-Poverty.

In the reality that surrounds us today, many of them have had a certain mythical connotation for some time. Not in the sense that it ancient times tradition”, but in the fact that this no longer corresponds to the reality (reality) of our days.

We will not touch on the reasons now. Let's take a look at some examples of this folk myth-making. And the messages hidden in them.

The hen pecks at the grain and is full.

Drop by drop, the ocean is filling up.

All this is about not being in a hurry. You just need to save up - "Kopeck to kopeck, there will be a ruble." For a long time there are no "kopecks". Unless the collectors, or the bank will give you the amount to the nearest penny (in the literal sense of the word).

The problem is that our subconscious perceives it LITERALLY. From this we have two consequences:

  1. Count pennies and be glad that money is accumulating
  2. It will take a very long time to accumulate wealth in this way. One human life definitely not enough.

The rich have a short-lived joy - you have to pay for everything.

And again two consequences:

  1. Perhaps they will have to, but so far they have not had to - they live in abundance and enjoy coziness, comfort, quality food and clothing. Their children receive a good education etc.
  2. We see quite a lot now wealthy people. And we also see that the more wealthy they are, the less often and less they have to “pay”.

And how many people live in poverty and their only joy in life is to wait until the "rich" will "pay" for their " sweet life". They pay with their poverty for the dubious opportunity to have the dubious pleasure of enjoying the "suffering" of the former rich.

Hidden Message - Wealth = Unhappiness

The more money you spend, the more money you get

Allegedly, there is a kind of homespun (sorry - "higher Cosmic") truth. To buy an expensive iPhone (car, penthouse, yacht), a person got into a loan (mortgage) for several years. And (again) supposedly, this will stimulate a person to earn more money. And this is half the trouble. Allegedly, money will directly find its way to it.

But something I have not met people who would have received a lot of money after they got into loans up to their ears. And you? And what do we get in the dry residue?

Hidden Direction: "Live beyond your means."

No sane businessman (and not even a businessman, but just a sane person) will ever spend a penny in excess of what he can afford. Because he understands perfectly well that if he spends more than he can afford, then sooner or later he will inevitably be in debt.

As soon as you start living beyond your means, money shuns you like lepers. Because you don't know their laws, you don't know how to deal with them.

Now I don't need money. When needed, then I will earn

And so they continue to "not earn". Because “what if you can’t earn decent money?” what about selfishness? surrounding
will laugh.

Scare your fear of failure. Smart people they will support you even in case of failure they will tell you - analyze your mistakes, correct them and go to the next attempt.

Hidden message - I don't need money.

After all, we live in a continuous Now.

Wealth is a sin

Another option is Money is a sin (evil). Why did you decide so? Who told you this heresy? Neither in the Bible, nor in the Koran, nor in the Torah is there a single line that you (as an adherent of a particular religion) live in poverty. Another question is that all these books contain indications of decency in relation to other people when you earn your capital.

The sin (-ness) of money.

In money itself there is no evil, no sin, no good, no good. All this is IN THE HEAD of the one who holds this money in his hands. Depending on the contents of the head, money GET one direction or another. Although, however, if money is evil and sin for you, do not touch it, do not earn it, do not desire it. Let them go to someone else. They will thank you very much for this. Or maybe they won't. And they will be right. What are you saying thank you for? Because they took what you completely voluntarily refused? ..

A long ruble shortens life. I value health

Wake up! You work no less for your very modest salary than a rich man for his millions. And you get sick less. And you also need rest, but you cannot afford such a luxury. I just love this approach!

After all, if you turn on your brains (use them for their intended purpose), what good health consists of:

  • quality food
  • quality medical care
  • lack of constant anxiety (fear) that tomorrow your children will eat, what to buy for them new clothes how to pay for their education, etc.

But you don’t have money for normal treatment and quality food. And he has. Whose health will be stronger in the end?

Another option - big money - big problems. And again - WAKE UP! Yes, wealthy people have problems too. Do you know the difference between the problems of the poor and the rich? - The vast majority of problems in modern world quite easily solved for money (I don't mean bribes).

Hidden Message - Lots of money = no health.

But without money, then your health is simply “heaped up”!

I don't have a good education

The first thing that comes to mind - well, get this very "good education." You are an adult.

Secondly, history and modernity knows quite a few examples of how "triples" were knocked out (and are still knocked out) into people and live very wealthy. And there are honors students with honors who barely make ends meet.

Obviously, the problem is not education, but something else. For example, in the presence of the mind, energy and willingness to work for their own good.

Having a lot of money, I condemn other people to poverty

Maybe. However, having a lot of money, no one forbids you to take an orphanage under your patronage, or pay for the studies of a talented
a child from a low-income family, or pay for someone's treatment and save that person's life. And also to give jobs, for example, to a personal driver, a housekeeper and pay them a good salary. Or pay a decent salary to the people who work for you.

Hidden message - poverty = clear conscience.

You need to have a good start-up capital

The options are to find a treasure, or to receive a large inheritance.

Again, history and modernity knows a bunch of examples when people happened to find a treasure, or receive an inheritance, or win an amount of money that is quite sufficient for starting capital. And they completely mediocrely "leaked" this money for anything, for all sorts of nonsense, and safely returned to their original, very modest existence.

Hidden message - I can't make money because I don't have money.

All. The brain is frozen. The problem cannot be solved with such initial data.

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How to tie it to Tarot cards (Lenormand, etc.) to runes, etc., if a person talks about money in the vein of various esoteric techniques, observing all kinds of “money” signs and traditions, but still does not have money (or maybe Is this your personal situation?

  1. Ask the first saying about money that comes to mind. It is highly likely that it is this saying that he is guided by everything related to money.
  2. Make an alignment on the relationship of this person with money. What are these relationships? We should be more interested in information about the questioner's relationship to money (rather than money to him). What is it in relation to money
  • thinks
  • Feels
  • Does

This will give you a more accurate understanding of the questioner's money problems. And it will facilitate your work on finding a solution (unless, of course, the questioner really wants to solve this problem, and not just talk and lament about it).

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P.S. Although my personal opinion about working with beliefs is one of the "400 relatively honest ways to take money from the population." I am more than sure that those who have a good income do not have it at all because of working out “wrong” beliefs.

Perhaps they are driven by 2 magic words "Need!" and “I want!”, And they pump all their strength and energy into these 2 words. And not in the word "I'm afraid." And one more obvious fact - money comes from OUTSIDE, and delving into your beliefs, you are immersed (are you immersed? ..) even deeper INSIDE.

And there will be no end to this. Because you will inevitably find that your “poverty mindset” comes from your mother-grandmother-great-grandmother, and then it turns out that you need to work with the family, do theta-healing, or go back through past lives and look for reasons there. And if you don’t find it there, then take some more “journeys into yourself”.

And everything would be fine. Yes, only all this time you will be turned INSIDE. And other people will earn money IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD.

You are NOT INTERESTED in making money. It is interesting for you to HAVE and “Merge” them.

After all, do you find time and ways to do what you are really interested in? That's why you don't make a lot of money. You just don't care about it. And they do not accumulate for the same reason.

Interest is directed and sustained ATTENTION to something. And you remember money only when you need it (when you need to spend it).

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1. Appetite comes with eating, and greed is at the time of appetite.

2. Grandmother wondered, said in two whether rain, or snow, whether it will be, or not.

3. Poverty is not a vice, but misfortune.

4. A healthy mind in a healthy body - rare luck.

5. The family has its black sheep, and because of the freak, everything is not to please.

6. Lucky as sabbath drowned man - no need to heat the bath.

7. A raven will not peck out a crow's eye, and peck out, but not pull out.

8. Everyone seeks the truth, not everyone does it.

9. Where it is thin, it breaks there, where it is thick, there it is layered.

10. It was smooth on paper, Yes, they forgot about the ravines, and walk along them.

11. Goal like a falcon, and sharp as an ax.

12. Hunger is not an aunt, won't bring a pie.

13. Hunchbacked grave will fix, and the stubborn - a club.

14. The lip is not a fool, the tongue is not a shovel: know what is bitter, what is sweet.

15. Two pair of boots, yes both left.

16. Two thirds are waiting, and seven do not wait for one.

17. Girlish shame - to the threshold, overstepped and forgot.

18. The work of the master is afraid, and another craftsman.

19. Road spoon to dinner, and there at least under the bench.

20. The law is not written for fools, if written - then not read, if read - then not understood, if understood - then not so.

21. We live, we chew bread, and sometimes we add salt.

22. For a beaten man they give two unbeaten, Yes, it doesn't hurt, they take.

23. You chase two hares - not one wild boar you won't catch.

24. Overseas fun, but someone else's, and we have grief, but our own.

25. Hare legs are worn, the teeth feed the wolf, the tail protects the fox.

26. AND business time, And fun hour.

27. And the blind horse carries, if a sighted person sits on a cart.

28. A mosquito will not knock down a horse, until the bear helps.

29. Whoever remembers the old - that eye out, and whoever forgets - both.

30. The hen pecks grain by grain, and the whole yard is in the litter.

31. Dashing trouble is the beginning, and the end is near.

32. Dashing trouble initiative - there is a hole, there will be a hole.

33. Young people scold - amuse themselves, and the old people scold - rage.

34. They carry water on the (offended) angry, and the good ones themselves ride.

35. Do not open your mouth at someone else's loaf, get up early and start your own.

36. Not all cat carnival, there will be a post.

37. The woodpecker does not grieve that he cannot sing, and so the whole forest hears it.

38. Neither fish nor meat, neither caftan nor cassock.

39. A new broom sweeps in a new way, but when it breaks, it lies under the bench.

40. One in the field is not a warrior, and the traveler.

41. Horses die from work, and people are getting stronger.

42. Horses don't roar from oats but they do not look for good from good.

43. Stick, double-edged, hitting here and there.

44. Repetition is the mother of learning, consolation of fools.

45. Repetition is the mother of learning and a haven for the lazy.

46. ​​Water does not flow under a lying stone, and under the rolling - does not have time.

47. The drunken sea is knee-deep, and the puddle is up to your ears.

48. Dust in a column, smoke in a yoke, but the hut is not heated, not swept.

49. Work is not a wolf, it will not run away into the forest, because it, accursed, must be done.

50. Grow big, but don't be a noodle, stretch a mile, but don't be simple.

51. The fisherman sees the fisherman from afar, therefore bypasses.

52. Hand washes hand, yes they both itch.

53. Get along with a bee - get a honey, contact with a beetle - you will find yourself in manure.

54. Your eye is a diamond, and the alien is glass.

55. Seven troubles - one answer, the eighth trouble - absolutely nowhere.

56. A bold bullet is afraid, and he will find a coward in the bushes.

57. Dog in the manger lies, she does not eat and does not give to cattle.

58. The dog was eaten, choked on their tail.

59. Old age is not joy, sit down - do not get up, run - do not stop.

60. The old horse will not spoil the furrow, and it won't plow deep.

62. Fear has large eyes, yes they don't see anything.

63. Hit on one cheek - turn the other, but don't let yourself get hit.

64. Mind chamber, yes the key is lost.

65. Bread on the table - and the table is the throne, but not a piece of bread - and the table is a board.

66. Trouble is full of mouth, and nothing to eat.



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