The best proverbs about summer: folk and modern

"Oh, the summer is red! I would have loved you, if it had not been for the heat, but the dust, and the mosquitoes, and the flies. "

Who does not know this proverb about summer! Probably, every Russian after the statement of Alexander Pushkin, no, no, and sigh in this way in the hot season.

Language - a living organism, it absorbs time, forms folklore. Lines of songs and poems become proverbs. And it does not matter who the author is - the winged expression has gone to the people and has become a part of his culture.

Summer residents

In general, the fight against the nemesis is the destiny of summer residents, who manage to grow crops on their 6 acres. They, then, perhaps, and keep people's omens and proverbs. The summer starts talking at the beginning of the season, and the season comes after the winter solstice. In this period, seedlings are grown on the windowsill.

• The sun is summer, winter is frosty.

The day is getting longer, the beds are thawing, the farmers are sowing greens.

• The early rain will give the treasury, but the late will completely ruin it.

For field crops watering is important, so that the grass grows in mass, the tops are filled, the ear sprouts a lot of grains. The late rain during the harvest will soak the bread, the crops will rot. Ruin, and only.

Summer suffering

Previously, a peasant could afford to rest only in the winter. Triumphant, renewing the sledge way. Proverbs and sayings about the summer were formed by the people not for fun, they served as pointers and motivators:

• Summer day feeds.
• In the summer weather to wait - in the winter all family to starve.
• Summer in the hut you will spend - in the winter to gather you will go.
• In the summer, hands folded - in winter there is nothing to put in your mouth.
  In the summer you kick your foot, and in the winter you will bend the pie.
• Everyone is safe from the summer.

Proverbs about summer reflect the course of seasonal works:

• June does not allow to be bored, will not want to walk.
• July is very dense, the barn is empty.
• The top of the summer itself does not sleep and does not give to others.

July is the most working time. Day meets at night, darkness does not come. Southern regions of Russia, although they do not know the white nights, but also for a short time say goodbye to the sun.

• No more serious work than the July suffering.

In the summer, the mowers did not go home to sleep, they slept in the field. Collectors of mushrooms and berries, nuts, honey, medicinal herbs stayed at night in the forest, slept near the fire.

• In the summer, every bush is a hut, green grass is a bed, a hummock is a pillow.
• In the summer, every stack is a bedroom.

With the beginning of August, the days are getting shorter. Since August 2, do not swim in the water - "deer hoof soaked," it's cold.

• In August, the summer before lunch.

August is the time for harvesting fruits and vegetables. Mushrooms ripened in the forest. In the swamp there is cowberry. Everything has to be done in order to save for the winter.

• August is a generous master, he has only enough.
• The winter was threatening, but August won.

By what the weather was at that time, they learned about the nature of the coming winter.

• In the summer rains - in the winter of snow wait.
• In summer, dry land - in winter, wait for the cold.

Modern proverbs about summer

Most popular proverbs fit modern summer residents and rural residents. But life is changing, and new, modern ones are being created.

• Only in the summer the townspeople understand the inhabitant of the village.

During the maintenance work for the month there is no hot water. And if the repair is serious, turn off the cold one. People store water in the tub and go wash to the other end of the city, where the prevention has already passed.

Not all household members share the anticipation of country work. Expression of the aspirations of a city dweller in the repetition of such a proverb about summer:

• It is good to dream in the winter, how you will sunbathe in the summer.

There are lovers of sea voyages. But they also need to try - to save up for summer vacation:

• In order to portray a starfish at sea in the summer, it is necessary to imitate the autumn and winter workhorses.

At the resort new meetings, new acquaintances:

• Summer is a small life.

The main thing here is to calculate your strength. And it does not have enough for active rest. Here's what other holidaymakers say:

• After summer vacation, you must take a vacation to rest.

Someone is resting on the sea, someone is going on a hike, and somebody does not get out of the garden at a dacha site. No matter how hard we spent the hot season, the photo reminds us of the past in the winter. And a good inscription can be one of the sayings.