zukku çibin
/zukku tʃibin/
Idiom
Intended meaning
An extremely small, paltry amount, or nothing at all; said especially of wages or of what one receives for work.
- Tawlula ömürlerinde haparda da aytıb eşitmegen işlerinde – mamuq bahçalada tüyülüb jaşaydıla. Anı üçün alğanları ua, – zukku çibin, aşları – aşlıq hudur.The mountain people wear themselves out in the cotton fields, at work they had never so much as heard tell of in all their lives. And what they get for it is a pittance, and their food is grain gruel.
- Atamça, Sovet vlastha janların-qanların ayamay qulluq etgenleni namısları bügün zukku çibinni da tutmay qaldı.Like my father, those who served the Soviet authorities sparing neither life nor blood — today their honour has come to be worth not even a pittance.
- Biz, qatınla, keçe-kün demey, eşekle kibik, işleybiz, bizge jetgen a – zukku çibin.We women work like donkeys, night and day without stop, and what comes to us is nothing at all.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 221