tübüne keterge

/tybyne keterɡe/

Idiom

Literal translation

to go to the bottom

Of meat or other food: to be cooked well past the right point, until it is overdone.

Men, basta tübüne ketmesin, qaray turayım, sen, igi balamça, ol ullu üyde tepsini otowğa qonaqlağa elt, – dedi Jantemir qızı Badimatha."Let me keep watch so the basta doesn't cook away at the bottom; you, like my good child, take the table in that big house through to the guests in the room," they said to Badimat, Jantemir's daughter.

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