awuz açarğa qoymay
/awuz atʃarʁa qojmaj/
Literal translation
not letting (one) open the mouth
Intended meaning
Giving others no chance to speak, talking over them and cutting them off.
- Qızın kolhoznu predsedateline bergenden sora, awuz açarğa qoymay, Sovet vlastnı kesi keltirgença, ullu söleşedi [Okuçuq].After marrying his daughter to the collective-farm chairman, he [Okuchuq] talks big without letting anyone get a word in, as if he had brought Soviet power himself.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 64