bek ıranda kırdık
/bek ɯranda kɯrdɯk/
Idiom
Literal translation
grass on a sheer cliff ledge
Intended meaning
Something extremely precious that cannot be obtained.
- Kesiniki – bek ıranda kırdık, seniki ua kazönna bolur, – dewçü edi anam, brigadir sabiyleni, ayamay, mamuq bahçağa sürgende.“His own is grass on a sheer ledge, but yours must be state property,” my mother used to say, when the brigade leader drove the children relentlessly into the cotton field.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 114