| Olivewace | Дата: Воскресенье, 06.12.2015, 18:26 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| Shell-shocked dealt with quickly, with minimum attention shrift was the act of hearing a person's confessions and giving them absolution from their sins. Someone due to be executed was given but short shrift as they were considered beyond absolution. The word shrift comes from the verb shrive meaning 'to hear confession'. The past tense of the verb is shrove, hence shrove tuesday, the day immediately before lent and a holiday; people went to confession and then made merry before starting the lenten penances.
And here's another fact!
Ill-gotten gains money gained by questionable means this is all that is left in general use of a proverb that ran 'ill-gotten gains never prosper'. This first appeared in english in 1519 in the form 'evil gotten riches will never prove long', and shakespeare has it in the form 'didst thou never hear / that things ill got had ever bad success (henry vi, part 3, ii.Ii). Ill-gotten gains had become separated from their proverb by the late 17th century, and were a clichСЂв„– by the 19th.
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