başlı-tüplü bolurğa
/baʃlɯ-typly bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become head-and-bottom
Intended meaning
To meet with misfortune, harm, or calamity; to fall into disaster.
- Alaylay uruş başlandı da, duniya başlı-tüplü boldu.Just then the war broke out, and the world was turned upside down.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 98