ayaq orunlu eterge
/ajaq orunlu eterɡe/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Literal translation
to make foot-placed
Intended meaning
To allow someone to live and establish themselves in a place; in the negative form (аякъ орунсуз этерге), to deny someone that chance and drive them out.
- Da, ayaq orunlu etdilemi da? Aytdırmay qoymay eseŋ, tabannı berib qıstadıla da? – dedi Bazarbiy jaşına."Well, did they let him settle in, then? Since you insist on making me say it — they showed him the sole of the foot and drove him out, didn't they?" said Bazarbiy to his son.
- Marziyni qayınları keslerin qızdırıb, anı ayaq orunsuz etdile.Marziy's in-laws worked themselves into a rage and left her with no place to stand.
Literal translation
to make foot-placed
Intended meaning
Of new footwear: to widen out and stop pinching once it has been worn in.
- Jaŋı çuruqlarım alıqa ayaq orun etmegendile da, andan qıynalıb jürüyme.My new boots have not broken in yet, so I go about in discomfort.
Variants
- ayaq orunsuz eterge
- ayaq orun eterge
- ayaq orunlu bolurğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 84