şaytan qarğağança bolurğa
/ʃajtan qarʁaʁantʃa bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become as if cursed by the devil
Intended meaning
To fail utterly, so that nothing one undertakes comes together and everything falls apart.
- Alanı işleri... aqılda, esde bolmağanlay, şaytan qarğağança bolub qaldı da.And their affairs, quite unexpectedly, went utterly to ruin.
- Nuh efendi, anı unutmay keçine kelgen edi, endi, şaytan qarğağanlay, otun nek kömdü?Nuh efendi had come to his evening gathering without forgetting him — so now, as if the devil had cursed it, why did he bury the firewood?
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 500