çöp atarğa

/tʃøp atarʁa/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

to throw a straw

To settle a choice by drawing lots or by a secret ballot.

Komsomolğa kirlikle da keslerin hazırlağandıla, tüzlük bolur üçün, çöp atarıqdıla, – dedi da, Hasseyit, hurjunundan uwaq çörgelgen qağıtçıqlanı alıb, börküne quydu."Those about to join the Komsomol have got themselves ready too; so that it will be fair, they will draw lots," said Hasseyit, and taking the little rolled-up slips of paper out of his pocket, he tipped them into his cap.
Alanı nek kelgenlerin aŋılap, mayor şahmatlanı çığardı. Çöp atdıla. Oynarğa mayorğa bla starşinağa tüşdü.Understanding why they had come, the major brought out the chess set. They drew lots. It fell to the major and the sergeant major to play.

to throw a straw

To take part in an election; to cast one's vote for a candidate.

«1966 jıl 12 iünda, Sssr-ni Baş Sovetine saylawlanı kününde, barıbız da, bir adamça, 723-çü Zelençuk saylaw okrugdan kandidatha ayırılğan Halid İshakoviç İonov üçün çöp atarıqbız!» – deydile söleşgenle."On 12 June 1966, the day of the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, all of us, as one, will vote for Halid Ishakovich Ionov, the candidate put forward from the 723rd Zelenchuk electoral district!" say the speakers.

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