beti jetmezge
/beti dʒetmezɡe/
Literal translation
for one's face not to reach
Intended meaning
To feel too ashamed or embarrassed to do something; to lack the nerve to say or do it.
- Tişirıwla meni nögerlerimden ençi sıylar umut etgenlerinde, unamadım. Nögerlerimden başha aşarğa betim jetmedi.When the women expected special honours for me apart from my companions, I refused. I was too ashamed to eat differently from my companions.
- Ne ençi sözümü da ayta edim, anı onowun tersge sanab, ol djol awuzuna urğança etgenme da, endi bolumnu aytırğa betim djetmeydi.I used to speak my own mind too, and since I judged his advice wrong and that time as good as struck him in the mouth, now I am too ashamed to state the situation.
Variants
- beti joyulurğa
- beti djetmezge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 119
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), PDF page 68