ölür tügü çığarğa
/ølyr tyɡy tʃɯʁarʁa/
Literal translation
for one's dying-hair to come out
Intended meaning
To have very little time left to live; to be at death's door.
- Endi meni kesimi da ölür tügüm çıqğandı, andan [Mashutçuqdan] haparsızlay, ol duniyağa anama ne aytıb barlığımı bilmeyme.Now my own dying-hair has come out too, and with no news of him [of Maskhutchuk], I do not know what I shall say to my mother when I go to the other world.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 165