бог несет

• (куда, откуда и т.п.) БОГ НЕСЕТ (кого)?; (зачем, откуда и т.п.) БОГ ПРИНЕС (кого)? both obs

[VPsubj; if impfv, pres only; fixed WO]

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⇒ (where) is s.o. going (or coming from)?; (why, from where etc) has s.o. come? (бог несёт is often used as a question addressed to a person going in the direction opposite to the speaker's):

- куда X-a бог несёт? ≈ where (in the world) is X headed (going, off to)?;

|| откуда X-a бог несет? ≈ where (in the world) is X coming from?;

|| зачем X-a бог принёс? ≈ why (in the world) is X here (did X come here)?;

- how come X is (came) here?;

- what brought X here?;

- [when addressed to the interlocutor only] what brings you here (to these parts etc)?

     ♦ [Борис:] Кудряш, это ты? [Кудряш:] Я, Борис Григорьич... Вас куда бог несёт? (Островский 6). [В.:] Kudryash, is that you? [К.:] It's me, Boris Grigorich!...Where're you headed? (6a).

     ♦ [Кума (подходит к Матрёне):] Здорово, баушка [ungrammat, phonetic spelling = бабушка], отколь бог несёт? [Матрёна:] А из двора, милая. Сынка проведать пришла (Толстой 1). [Friend (coming up to Matrena):] Good day, old woman, where in the world did you come from? [M.:] From home, of course, my dear. I came to see my son (1b).

     ♦ "А, ваше благородие! - сказал он мне с живостию. - Как поживаешь? Зачем тебя бог принёс?" (Пушкин 2). "Ah, Your Honor!" he said to me gaily, "how do you do? What brought you to these parts?" (2a).