başına ow bolurğa
/baʃɯna ow bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become a woe to one's own head
Intended meaning
To be unable to arrange one's own life the way it ought to be arranged; to make a mess of one's affairs.
- Men, teli, Muhtar üyüm demegenin, kelse qonaq, ketse qazaq bolğanın köre turğanımlay, başıma qalay ow bolğanem!Fool that I was, though I saw plainly that Mukhtar never called my house his own — a guest when he came, a stranger when he left — how I made a ruin of my own life!
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 112