töşek bolurğa

/tøʃek bolurʁa/

Idiom

Literal translation

to become a bed

To fall gravely ill and be confined to bed, unable to get up.

Alay bir qawumla, hawa jaraşmay, töşek bolğandıla.But some of them, the climate not agreeing with them, took to their beds.
Qarındaşlarım a… «Siz başha duniyada esegiz, men mında ne eteme?!» – degen künlerim az bolmağandı, anam harib töşekde bolmasa.As for my brothers… there were not a few days when I said, "If you are in the other world, what am I doing here?!" — were my poor mother not bedridden.

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