başımı köbedi

/baʃɯmɯ købedi/

Idiom · Formula · Refusal

Literal translation

has my head swollen?

Blunt rhetorical retort rejecting a task that the speaker sees as someone else's to do, implying the other person is simply too lazy to do it.

Söleşirge süygen, arağa çığıb, sözün halqğa aŋılatırğa başımı köbedi?"Whoever wants to speak can step forward and put his word to the people — why should I be the one to do it?"

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