bir eliden qalırğa
/bir eliden qalɯrʁa/
Literal translation
to be left short by one village
Intended meaning
To miss doing or achieving something by a very small margin; to come within a hair's breadth of it and not manage it.
- Dawt veterinar fakultetni boşağandı. Alim bolurğa ua bir eliden qalğandı.Daut finished the veterinary faculty. But he fell just short of becoming a scholar.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 135