Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.48.2.1

On the Croatian Idioms with the Components drvlje i kamenje

Željka Fink ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

Abstract

In the contemporary Croatian a dozen verbal idioms related to verbal assault are in activeuse. The paper deals with the idioms baciti / bacati (sasuti i sl.) drvlje i kamenje , bacati se (nabacivati se i sl.) drvljem i kamenjem na koga, na što, zasuti drvljemi kamenjem koga, što with the meaning ‘verbally assault somebody, something’. Theirorigin refers to the offenders sentenced to death by stoning. Full phrasal equivalents arefound in Serbian and Macedonian, while several semantic phrasal equivalents are usedin other Slavic languages.

Keywords

Croatian; phraseology; idioms with the meaning ‘verbally assault somebody, something’; idioms with the components drvlje i kamenje; phrasal equivalents from other Slavic languages

Hrčak ID:

299217

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/299217

Publication date:

30.12.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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