başın suwğa atarıq bolurğa
/baʃɯn suwʁa atarɯq bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to be about to throw one's head into the water
Intended meaning
To grow weary of something to the point of desperation; to be sick and tired of it (in the causative variant, to bore or weary someone to that point).
- Ollahiy, Aminat, sen hılikkya etib aytsaŋ da, men işsizden başımı suwğa atarıq bolğanma, – dedi jaş."By God, Aminat, even if you say it mockingly, I am fed up to death with being out of work," said the young man.
- Hatası joqdu, harib, bek adam kölü olturğan adamdı nögeri, alay bir bek janşaqdı da, erikdirib, başımı suwğa atarıq etedi.He does no harm, poor fellow, my companion is a very agreeable man, but he is such a chatterbox that he wearies me sick of it all.
Variants
- başın suwğa atarıq eterge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 108