atamı etin aşağan kibikdi
/atamɯ etin aʃaʁan kibikdi/
Literal translation
it is as if eating my father's flesh
Intended meaning
Said of something one refuses as incompatible with one's honor and therefore illicit; taking it would be shameful.
- Qazawatda adamları bolğanlağa qıral bergen boluşluqnu alırğa süymegenle da bar: «Ol atamı etin aşağan kibikdi», – dey edile allayla.There were also those who would not take the aid the state gave to people who had relatives in the war: "That would be like eating my father's flesh," such people used to say.
Variants
- anamı etin aşağan kibikdi
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 57