tügün barğan janına sılarğa
/tyɡyn barʁan dʒanɯna sɯlarʁa/
Idiom
Literal translation
to stroke the hair in the direction it lies
Intended meaning
To do a thing or say a word in the way that best suits it, rather than going against it or contradicting.
- Anı [Maksimilian Gorodetskiyni] halisin, qılığın da teren sezib, Sülemen, tügün barğan janına sılab, jaŋı oqub başlağan jıllarında oquna közüne çöp bolub tüşse, uwmazça etgen edi.Having sensed deeply the nature and temper of Maximilian Gorodetsky, Sulemen so stroked him the way his hair lay that, even in the first years of his new studies, had he fallen into the man's eye as a speck, he would not have rubbed it out.
Sources
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- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary