başından öterge
/baʃɯndan øterɡe/
Literal translation
to pass over one's head
Intended meaning
To undergo something personally; to experience a hardship or ordeal firsthand rather than hearing of it.
- Ol zatla barısı da Sülemenni başından ötüb, tolu haparı bardı.All those things had passed over Sulemen's own head, and he knew the whole of it.
- Ol zamanda qara halqnı qırğanla da, qırdırğanla da endi kesi başlarından sınasınla.Now let those who slaughtered the common people then, and those who had them slaughtered, go through it themselves.
Variants
- başından sınarğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 113