ölüm uçu bolurğa
/ølym utʃu bolurʁa/
Idiom
Literal translation
to become the edge of death
Intended meaning
To be beaten or injured so badly as to be crippled and left close to death; with этерге, to beat someone into that state.
- Ahırında çınlı nemets, terlegenlerin sürte, jağa taşına olturğan etmey, tüz da jığılğan etdi. Ölgendi, ne ölüm uçu bolğandı.In the end the real German, wiping off his sweat, did not sit down on the stone by the bank but simply collapsed. He has died, or else he is at death's door.
- Sohtalanı ortağa aldıla da, bolğanların qaralthınçı tüyüb, ölüm uçu etdile.They took the pupils into their midst and beat them black and blue all over, leaving them at death's door.
Variants
- ölüm uçu eterge
Sources
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- Bashieva and Zharashueva 1994 · School Phraseological Dictionary of the Balkar Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary