baş keçindire aylanırğa
/baʃ ketʃindire ajlanɯrʁa/
Literal translation
to go about keeping one's head alive
Intended meaning
To live as a fugitive, in hiding and with no concern but staying alive; to take to the outlaw's life.
- Uruş jıllada ağaçha ketib, başha jerlede buğub, baş keçindire aylanŋanla köb edile.In the war years there were many who went off to the forest, hid in other places, and lived on the run.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 95