ne kelsin
/ne kelsin/
Idiom · Formula
Literal translation
what should come
Intended meaning
Said when nothing can be gained or done about a situation: there is no benefit, no remedy, alas.
- Ekisini da köpdü ahşı muratları, eterik işleri, alay a, ne kelsin, işi köb boş turur degen aytıwnu kertiligin haman da keslerinde sınaydıla.Both of them have many good intentions and things to do, but — what's the use — they keep proving on themselves the truth of the saying that a man with much work ends up idle.
- Men tuwğan üyümden ketgenden sora, jaşawum sizde, sizni bla bolurğa kerek edi. Ne kelsin, uyumağan sütça, arlı-berli bola turabız.After I left the house where I was born, my life should have been with you, among you. But it's no use — like milk that will not set, we keep drifting this way and that.
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