suwuq kelbetli bolurğa
/suwuq kelbetli bolurʁa/
Idiom
Literal translation
to be of cold countenance
Intended meaning
To wear a hard, ill-natured expression; to look forbidding and unfriendly.
- Zamansız nek aylanasız? Ne bolğandı? Suwuq kelbetlerigiz bardı da, – dep, artıq aşıqmay sordu Tawqan."Why are you about at this hour? What has happened? Your faces look so grim," Tawqan asked, in no particular hurry.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 418