çabaqla azığı bolurğa
/tʃabaqla azɯʁɯ bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become the fishes' food
Intended meaning
To drown in a river or the sea and be lost without a trace, the body never recovered.
- Faşist admiral a endi «Astoriya» restoranda da olturluq tüyüldü. Tamatalarını qolundan asker sawğala da almaz. Ol kesi çabaqla ülüşü bolğandı.The fascist admiral will not be sitting in the Astoria restaurant any more. Nor will he take military honours from the hands of his commanders. He himself has become food for the fishes.
Variants
- çabaqla ülüşü bolurğa
- çabaqla azığı eterge
- çabaqla ülüşü eterge
Sources
Show sources
- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 489