tayaqdan atlağısız bolurğa
/tajaqdan atlaʁɯsɯz bolurʁa/
Idiom
Literal translation
to become unable to step over a stick
Intended meaning
To become powerless and destitute; to be reduced to feebleness and poverty.
- Mayna Hızırları bıltır, kişi aythanŋa da qaramay, çınttı elge aytılğan berne etib, Payruznu ızından jibergen edile, kesleri da tayaqdan atlağısız bolğan edile.Last year the Khyzyrs, heeding nobody, sent Payruz off with a dowry the whole village talked about, and they themselves were left without a thing to their name.
- Ol qıyın awruwdu. Andan alqın adam ölmegendi, özge tayaqdan atlağısız etib qoyadı.It is a hard illness. Nobody has died of it yet, but it does leave one utterly helpless.
Variants
- tayaqdan atlağısız eterge
Sources
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- Bashieva and Zharashueva 1994 · School Phraseological Dictionary of the Balkar Language
- Tekeev 1992 · Phraseological Dictionary of the Karachay Language
- Zharashueva 2017 · Explanatory Phraseological Dictionary