baş bla kirib, tüb bla çığarğa

/baʃ bla kirib, tyb bla tʃɯʁarʁa/

Literal translation

to go in by the head and come out by the bottom

To get someone to do what one wants by working on them with all sorts of cunning and trickery.

Anası, baş bla kirib, tüb bla çığıb, qızın biyik oquw üyge, doktorğa oqurğa salğınçı tohtamadı.Her mother would not rest, working every angle she could, until she had got her daughter into a university to study medicine.

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