"Tolokonny forehead": the meaning of idiomatic expression and examples of use

The more time passes, the more words the Russian language loses: they come out of everyday circulation. This is historical dynamics, which is unfair. We want to at least a little slow down the iron pace of history and tell you today about the expression "tolkonny forehead": the meaning and examples of its use.

Origin

Dictionaries converge on the fact that the expression presented us AS Pushkin. He has such an entertaining "Tale of the Priest and of his Worker Balda." And she begins this way: "Once upon a time there was a priest, a tolon forehead." And here you can not do without an explanation.

Before the advent of mechanistic factories and plants, people made flour in two ways: grinding grain in a mill and pounding it in a mortar. Of course, different kinds of flour were used for these operations. It is to be assumed that, although the work at the mill is not an easy one, it was even more necessary to toothed the oatmeal in a mortar. And these efforts are comparable to explaining something to a person who is stupid, narrow-minded and uneducated. It also seems that the consonance of the noun "interpretation", that is, the "explanation", and the verb "pound" played its role in the emergence of phraseology. A noun "toks" from the verb "pushed" differs by one letter. Although this is only an assumption, but there is definitely some kind of language connection.

We inform the impatient: yes, we are considering the expression "tolkonny forehead", the meaning of it will soon be known.

Meaning

As, probably, the reader has already understood from the previous section, this characterizes a person who is stupid, uneducated, who hardly understands what is being said to him. Absorbing any thought in him is akin to hard work with oatmeal. Information should be chewed to the smallest detail, then it will be learned.

This is not a very complex phraseology "forehead forehead", its meaning is revealed.

Examples and synonyms

When it comes to the tone of the expression, the opinions of the dictionaries diverge. Some say that this is rather rude (and Pushkin's work confirms this: he is not the most pleasant person in all senses), and in other sources it is said that this is a comic name, and it can not offend anyone. How to know, jokes are different.

In any case, we will quite consciously reduce the degree of rudeness and say: the nonsense, played by Andrei Myagkov in the films of E. Ryazanov, are perfectly suitable for illustrative examples. And Novoseltsev ("Office Romance"), and Lukashin ("The Irony of Fate") do not differ in wit, however, only in one: in the chemistry of the senses and in the psychology of human relations. Otherwise, both characters are smart enough and even erudite, especially Novoseltsev, who discovers knowledge of Pasternak's poetry. And he also says the famous phrase: "It is better to die standing up". She has a sequel, and it sounds completely like this: "It is better to die standing than live on your knees." Who said it first is unknown, because too many are attributed to it. However, we are distracted. Our task: to consider the stable word combination "tolkonny forehead", its importance to explain and to choose examples.

In principle, this could be finished, but suddenly the reader will need a replacement of the expression in one word. And maybe, that's what he was looking for in the article. We can not deceive his expectations in any way. So, the phrase can be replaced by adjectives:

• Brainless.
• Stupid.
• Unintelligent.
• Uneducated.
• Close-minded.

If the task is to explain the expression "tolkonny forehead" (the meaning of phraseology open, in other words) and replace it with a noun, the following definitions will help:

• Fool.
• Idiot.
• Thugodum.
• Nerd.

As it seems, the slow-motion is the most adequate synonym, the rest are rude. But this is a matter of taste.