"To pester" - idiom: meaning and examples

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I Think fans to pester. But it will be found many curious onlookers who want to know the meaning of this idiom. Let us consider it in detail: meaning, origin, and usage examples.

To pester – it means to walk, to ask about any service but most often we are talking about a particular official decision. Thresholds usually suffer in the offices of officials.

There is No such adult person in Russia who would not know in practice the meaning of this expression. As soon as we cease to accompany parents, be sure to find a thing that will cause us to pester. The characteristic feature of such walk – the senselessness of it. That is, people don't talk this way when the problem can be solved, if you go to one person in one room. This reasoning, when a long time have to visit one place, then another, then a third. This number may be infinite.

Origins

pester

The people's memory has retained a special story for the occasion. Apparently, the idiom originated from immediate experience.

In Russia for centuries, there were two not interconnected realities: the physical and bureaucratic. The main snag is that the second rule over the first. In other words, something moved in physical reality, you need to ask permission and obtain written permission in reality bureaucratic. By the way, why «Dead souls" N.In. Gogol – eternal work! But let's not about sad.

The first frames of the “Ironic” by E. Ryazanov and idiom

to pester the value

Everyone's favorite Christmas movie is preceded by footage of the movie that explains how it happened so that the hero got on a plane in Moscow and went to St. Petersburg, called the address and found “home”. Very briefly puraskaram essence. In the cartoon, the architect created a project model homes. The accommodation was very beautiful. There were other buildings surrounding the house, entrance, of course, everything was completely sketchy. The hour has come when the author had to pester officials. And they light stroke of a pen, freed the project from the “excess”, while a simple rectangle with lots of Windows. The cartoon ends with the staff, as a typical Soviet home March across the planet. Fortunately, the prophecy was fulfilled.

This Story, unfortunately, is familiar to all creative people who can't find a permanent place. Translators pester book publishers, writers and journalists - Newspapers and magazines, and any unemployed person – the offices of your potential leaders.

Once the reader learns that the expression “pester” (the value it we revealed and explained), we can only wish him to go and ask a superior as little as possible.


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