başı tuluq bolurğa

/baʃɯ tuluq bolurʁa/

Literal translation

for one's head to become a leather sack

To be so overwhelmed by worry or brooding that one cannot think straight, as if out of one's mind.

Alan, qumuqlu, bir-birde kepge kelişmegen sözle aytıb qoyasa da, başıbız tuluq boladı, aŋılayalmay.“Listen, Kumyk, sometimes you come out with words that don't fit the mood, and our heads go in circles, unable to make sense of them.”
«Nikolay İvanoviç bir tıŋılawuq adamdı, üydegisin tas etgenli, anı başı hayran bolğandı», – dey edile nögerleri.“Nikolai Ivanovich is a very quiet man; ever since he lost his family his mind has been in a daze,” his companions used to say.

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