birew qushannı jalarğa
/birew qusxannɯ dʒalarʁa/
Literal translation
to lick what someone else has vomited
Intended meaning
To marry a woman whom another man has divorced or abandoned.
- Ollahiy, ömürde alaylay qalsam da, birew qushannı ua jalamaz edim, – degendi jaş teŋlerine."By God, even if I stayed unmarried forever, I would not lick what another man has vomited," the young man said to his friends.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 135