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Video: Why "there is no truth at the feet"?
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
People often accompany the offer to sit down with the phrase "there is no truth at the feet." Everyone has long been accustomed to it and do not pay special attention to it. However, few people know where this expression came from, and what it really means. The Kramol portal will try to figure out what is the history of this phrase and why, after all, there is no truth at the feet.
Knocking out debts
The most common and trustworthy version of the emergence of this phraseological unit refers us to Russian history of the 15-18 centuries. In those days, the word “truth” was often used instead of the term “right”, from which, in turn, the concept of “right”, meaning collection of debts, came from.
In the past centuries, very harsh methods were often used to obtain debt recovery. For example, a negligent debtor could have taken off his shoes and made him stand barefoot in the snow until he gave back the money he had taken earlier. Often they even resorted to hitting the heels or calves with sticks. However, in most cases, the debtors could not pay anything, because they simply did not have money. This is where the expression “there is no truth at the feet,” which implies the impossibility of realizing one's rights to money, even by hitting the feet, if this very money is not there.
Determining the culprit
Another theory of the origin of this phrase is connected with the fact that in the old days landowners resorted to torturing serfs, wanting to get them to confess to some illegal crime. People were also forced to stand until one of them took the blame or pointed out the culprit. Often in such cases, some exhausted peasant slandered another, or, on the contrary, someone, seeing the suffering of a loved one, took all the blame on himself. Thus, as a rule, it was still not possible to achieve the truth.
Escape of the delinquent
The third theory of the origin of the phrase "there is no truth at the feet" is related to the previous two. Often, a person who did not return the debt or was guilty of a certain crime simply hid from the punishment that threatened him. Therefore, completely innocent people were subjected to torture in the form of standing for many hours or beating on the legs, among whom there was obviously no debtor or criminal.
The expression "there is no truth at the feet" in this context did not mean the legs of the fugitive, in which the truth was, although it disappeared with him, but the legs of innocent people, from whom it was impossible to get the truth even theoretically, since it was not there.
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