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# The meaning of the word oshchip in a popular saying and its mistaken pronunciation
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/pomnite-vyrazhenie-popal-kak-kur-vo-shchshchi/
- Published: 2024-11-28T10:04:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:49:02.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Observations, Mores

Remember the expression "to land like a hen in the plucking"?

It is a mangled pronunciation of the winged phrase "to land like a hen in the ощип", where the ощип (oshchip) is the plucking of feathers from a chicken carcass.