atasını başınamı?
/atasɯnɯ baʃɯnamɯ?/
Literal translation
is it for his father's head?
Intended meaning
Used to demand, indignantly and rudely, what someone is bothering or exerting himself for; expresses that the effort has no worthwhile purpose.
- Ol bılaydan sıyırılğan mallanı, Sarbiyça, Dobayça, Mahmutça qan içgenleden sıyırılğan mallanı, meni kibik, vlastha tüz nietli, jarlı adamlağa hayırlandırlıq tüyül ese, men atamı başınamı küreşeme?!– If the livestock seized here, the livestock taken from bloodsuckers like Sarbiy, Dobay and Makhmut, is not to be put to use for poor people loyal to the authorities like me, then what on earth am I toiling for?!
Variants
- atasını başınamı küreşirge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 59