başımı köbedi
/baʃɯmɯ købedi/
Literal translation
has my head swollen?
Intended meaning
Blunt rhetorical retort rejecting a task that the speaker sees as someone else's to do, implying the other person is simply too lazy to do it.
- Söleşirge süygen, arağa çığıb, sözün halqğa aŋılatırğa başımı köbedi?"Whoever wants to speak can step forward and put his word to the people — why should I be the one to do it?"
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 104