on barmağı bla jer tırnab

/on barmaʁɯ bla dʒer tɯrnab/

Idiom

Literal translation

scratching the earth with one's ten fingers

With painstaking, unremitting labour; putting every effort into something, especially into raising a crop.

Aladan biriça, Halimat da on barmağı bla jer tırnab ösdürgen tahtalarına kirib, jarsıydı.Like one of them, Halimat too goes into the beds she raised by scratching the earth with her ten fingers, and grieves.

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