beti jetmezge

/beti dʒetmezɡe/

Idiom

Literal translation

for one's face not to reach

To feel too ashamed or embarrassed to do something; to lack the nerve to say or do it.

Tişirıwla meni nögerlerimden ençi sıylar umut etgenlerinde, unamadım. Nögerlerimden başha aşarğa betim jetmedi.When the women expected special honors for me apart from my companions, I refused. I was too ashamed to eat differently from my companions.
Ne ençi sözümü da ayta edim, anı onowun tersge sanab, ol jol awuzuna urğança etgenme da, endi bolumnu aytırğa betim jetmeydi.I used to speak my own mind too, and since I judged his advice wrong and that time as good as struck him in the mouth, now I am too ashamed to state the situation.

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