| Oliveea | Дата: Воскресенье, 06.12.2015, 11:33 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| Mealy-mouthed the proverb 'good fences make good neighbours' has been recorded in various forms since the 17th century. In 1879, the american senator john sherman made a speech in mansfield, ohio, saying, 'i have come home to look after my fences.' Whatever sherman may have meant by this, it was interpreted, no doubt under the influence of the proverb, to mean that he had come to campaign. Within ten years, mend fences had become an americanism for looking after your interests, and since then has mutated to suggest the rebuilding of good relationships. Perhaps some of this change, and certainly a greater awareness of the proverb, comes from robert frost's poem mending wall (1914) which includes the lines, 'my apple trees will never get across/and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. He only says, "good fences make good neighbours.&Quot;'
And here's another fact!
Spick and span habitual place of resort some cloven-footed animals, sheep and deer for example, stamp the ground to express warning of an invasion of their territory. For this reason the term, originally an americanism, was coined to mean the place where particular animals could be found, and it is now commonly applied to people.
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