çöpden terek bolurğa

/tʃøpden terek bolurʁa/

Literal translation

to become a tree out of a speck of straw

To swell far beyond an original small size; of a thing or of talk, to grow and be exaggerated enormously.

Hapar, jayıla ketib, çöpden terek bolub, kesini üsün basıb qoyar dep da qorqadı Berhan.Berhan is also afraid that the story, as it spreads and grows from a speck into a tree, will come down on top of him.
Qışhı keçede, çöpden terek etgen, terekden çeget etgen suwuqda, bılayğa kelgen ayaqlarığızğa başım qurman bolsun.On a winter's night, in a cold that makes a tree out of a speck and a forest out of a tree, may my head be a sacrifice to the feet that came here.

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