George Coșbuc – one of Stelian Dumistrăcel’s Forerunners regarding Phraseology

In this article, I aim at demonstrating that the writer and philologist George Coșbuc can be considered a remarkable forerunner of the specialist Stelian Dumistrăcel not only in terms of his interest in clarifying the origin of some Romanian idioms, but also in terms of his theoretical “intuition”, since he aptly “guessed” some conceptual distinctions relevant to the field of phraseology itself. In this regard, I will examine here only one etymological interpretation (along with its theoretical consequences), namely the one that the Transylvanian poet gave to the Romanian idiom a-și lua lumea în cap (“to go into the wide world”).