Karachay

eşigin jabarğa

/eʃiɡin dʒabarʁa/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Idiom

Literal translation

to close someone's door

Intended meaning

To inflict hardship and suffering on someone; to leave someone in calamity.
  • Muratlarıŋ Leninni muratları bolub turğanlay, sen aŋa qajaw uşkok alıb çıqğansa! Eşigiŋi japhansa, Nanıw, – dedi Ramazan."While your aims were Lenin's own aims, you took up a rifle against him! You have closed your own door, Nanyu," said Ramazan.

Idiom

Literal translation

to close someone's door

Intended meaning

To put someone to death.
  • «Oğurlu Bayramuqdan boşağan bolurbuz. Qalay açıwlu iş boldu, qallay hurmetli, qallay alamat adamnı eşigin japdıla», – degen sağışla bla Mahmut dorbunŋa jetginçige deri awuzun açıb, birewge da söleşmey keldi."We must have finished off good Bayramuk. What a bitter thing has happened — what an honored, what a splendid man they have closed the door of," — with such thoughts Mahmut walked on to the cave without opening his mouth, speaking to no one.

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