biçaq awuzunda tururğa

/bitʃaq awuzunda tururʁa/

Literal translation

to stand on the blade of a knife

To be in mortal danger, with one's life hanging in the balance.

Politsiyada açıq aythanlarına köre, Gans kesi biçaq awuzunda turadı: çıntdı nemets soldatına tiyişlisiça, anasın haram etib, anı jawlağanın, mından arı allay megejinni anağa sanamazlığın aytıb, şağatlıq qağıt jazsa, saw-salamat asker bölümüne qaytadı.According to what they said openly at the police station, Hans himself is standing on a knife's edge: if, as befits a true German soldier, he writes a signed statement declaring his mother unclean, cursing her, and saying that from now on he will not count such a bitch as a mother, he will return safe and sound to his army unit.

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