artı bla allı birge qatarğa

/artɯ bla allɯ birɡe qatarʁa/

Literal translation

for one's back and one's front to harden together

To be so emaciated as to look like a tall, stiff, flat figure; to be nothing but skin and bones.

«Artı bla allı birge qatıb turadı», – derle."He's so thin his back and his front have set together," they'd say.

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