bıstır-bıstır bolurğa
/bɯstɯr-bɯstɯr bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become rags and tatters
Intended meaning
To suffer unbearably from grief or anger, to the point of being destroyed by it.
- Jaşını halın kötüralmay, anası bıstır-bıstır boladı.Unable to bear her son's condition, his mother is eaten up with grief.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 150