maqa qaqlarğa
/maqa qaqlarʁa/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Idiom
Literal translation
to dry frogs for meat
Intended meaning
To live in poverty and want, lacking even everyday necessities.
- Ol [Baldan] barıb kirgen üy, ma kesigiz körürsüz, aynımağan, toğaymağan, maqa qaqlağan üy bolluqdu, – dep, qaraçaylı qatınladan biri sözge qoşuldu."The house he [Baldan] has married into — you will see for yourselves — will be a house that never thrives, never has its fill, a house living in poverty," one of the Karachay women put in.
Idiom
Literal translation
to dry frogs for meat
Intended meaning
Said of a newly married couple setting up their own household: to begin married life in want.
- Jaş üy biyçe maqa qaqlar.A young mistress of the house will live in want.
Sources
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- Akbaev 2007 · Phraseology of the Karachay-Balkar Language
- Bashieva and Zharashueva 1994 · School Phraseological Dictionary of the Balkar Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary