başından tük tüşse
/baʃɯndan tyk tyʃse/
Literal translation
if a hair falls from his head
Intended meaning
Said in anger as a warning that if the slightest harm comes to someone, there will be no forgiveness.
- Aŋa [sawsuzğa] hıyanat bolsa, bu sen mıyıq tübüŋden qıyıq ışarıb qarağan tişirıwlanı başlarından bir tük tüşse, elden adam qorasa, artda eşitmedim dep aytma, – dedile Eldar bla nögerleri elni starostasına."If harm comes to him [the sick man], if a single hair falls from the heads of these women you eye with a crooked smile under your moustache, if anyone goes missing from the village, don't say afterwards that you hadn't heard," Eldar and his companions said to the village elder.
Variants
- başından bir tük tüşse
- başından tük ketse
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 114