üy birge zamandaça
/yj birɡe zamandatʃa/
Literal translation
as in the time when the house was together
Intended meaning
As in the family's happiest time, while the household was still whole and none of the children had yet married and left.
- Oğay, igi qatın, endi ol sen aythan oraydala joqdula. Sen üy birge zamandaça söleşe turasa.No, good woman, the oraida songs you speak of are gone now. You are talking as if it were still the time when the house was whole.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 529