Overseas ... And who or what can be overseas?

If you approach an occasional person on the street and ask "Who or what can be overseas?" - the answers will be the most diverse - from "overseas visitor" to "caviar overseas, eggplant". Let's analyze the most popular options for answering the question posed.

Why overseas?

It is quite obvious that the word "overseas" is primordially Russian in its origin, and the allocation of a root in it is not difficult. Any native speaker, not even the most literate, just looking at this word will understand that the overseas is something because of the sea, that is, from another country, only the idea of who or what may be overseas will differ. In general, the word "overseas" can be divided into three main values:

• Brought, arrived from abroad, overseas;
• Overseas, foreign, foreign;
• Unprecedented, strange.

Who or what can be overseas?

So, as shown by the survey data, most often overseas is caviar. The eggplant. And this answer, no doubt, inspired by the famous feature film "Ivan Vasilievich changes profession."

The next most popular answer is the overseas miracle, in fact - absolutely any curiosity brought from abroad, has all the rights to call miraculous overseas.

Under the phrase "overseas fish" should be understood as a special kind, which is found only in a particular country, and a special way of cooking fish, peculiar to any national cuisine.

A little lower in the list of the most popular answers to the question "Who or what can be overseas?" It turns out to be an overseas region, and the rarity of its use is largely due to the fact that it ousted this phrase more convenient in use the word "abroad".

In fifth place is the overseas prince, he is the groom from abroad, but since the princes are a single phenomenon, the answer is by no means the most popular one. And just below there is an overseas guest, who is rarely remembered, but which is so often found in literary works, especially in children's tales.