şaytanları tutarğa

/ʃajtanlarɯ tutarʁa/

Literal translation

for one's devils to seize one

To lose all self-control: to pick quarrels with people and refuse to do anything anyone asks.

Jaşçıqnı şaytanları tutmağan kününe tübeseŋ a, ne aytırsa, ne jumuşuŋa da çaphanlay aylanır.If you catch the boy on a day when his devils have not taken hold of him, what can you say — he will come running at your every errand.
Andan-mından qatıla ketib, Musanı şaytanların tutdurdula da, andan sora ua ne küreşib jayıqdıralmadıla.Picking at him from this side and that, they set Musa's devils off, and after that, however they laboured, they could not calm him down.

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