şaytan otdan qaçhança
/ʃajtan otdan qatʃxantʃa/
Literal translation
as the devil flees from fire
Intended meaning
Said of someone who avoids or recoils from something out of intense revulsion.
- Jarıq maşinist: – Bıla [malqarlıla] toŋuz jawdan şaytan otdan qaçhança qaçadıla, – dedi.The cheerful machinist said: "They [the Balkars] flee from pork fat the way the devil flees from fire."
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 500