jılı suw ierge
/dʒɯlɯ suw ierɡe/
Idiom
Literal translation
to send warm water
Intended meaning
To deceive or work harm against someone while keeping up kind, flattering speech to their face.
- Minatları, kuka söznü berib, haman jılı suwnu iyib turğan bolmasa, anı [Muquyatnı] keregine qaramadıla.His Minats, apart from giving him an empty word and forever sweet-talking him, paid no heed to what he — Muquyat — needed.
Sources
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- Akbaev 2007 · Phraseology of the Karachay-Balkar Language
- Tekeev 1992 · Phraseological Dictionary of the Karachay Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary