başın hunkerge sanarğa

/baʃɯn xunkerɡe sanarʁa/

Literal translation

to count one's head a hünkâr (envoy/sovereign)

To have an inflated opinion of one's own intelligence; to consider oneself exceedingly clever.

Söleşib tebirese ua, alay başın hunkerge (bir qıraldan bir qıralğa kelgen keleçi) sanaydı, – deydi Murat."Once he starts talking, he fancies himself quite the brilliant one (an envoy who travels from one country to another)," says Murat.

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