başı tüşerge
/baʃɯ tyʃerɡe/
Literal translation
for one's head to fall
Intended meaning
To come under someone else's control, so that one's affairs turn out the way that other person dictates.
- Uğay, kerahatdan tuwğan kerahat, men aythanŋa ua başıŋ tüşmez edi da![The efendi:] No, you villain born of villainy, you would never have ended up doing as I say!
- Baş bolğandı amanıbız… – dep jarsığan ese, bügün 1948 jılda ol aythanŋa başıbız tüşüb turadı.If he grieved that "our worst has become our chief", today, in 1948, we are indeed living under what he said.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 103