at çabar kün aqsağanlay

/at tʃabar kyn aqsaʁanlaj/

Literal translation

as if going lame on the day the horse is to race

Of an obstacle or pretext that suddenly appears, without warning, just when a task has to be carried out.

At çabar kün aqsağanlay, Ahmat elge tigeler erttenini allında malla bölünüb, qoyçulağa alanı izlerge tüşdü.Like a horse going lame on race day, on the morning Ahmat was due to reach the village the livestock scattered, and the shepherds had to go looking for them.

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