birewnü bahçasına taş atarğa

/birewny baxtʃasɯna taʃ atarʁa/

Literal translation

to throw a stone into someone's garden

Intended meaning

To speak about someone in veiled, pointed terms; to make insinuating remarks or speak ill of them indirectly.
  • Qıyamıt, biyağı Biymurzanı bahçasına taş atarğa unutmay, barmağın anı taba tuta, qoçhar teri jurunça qaşların kere, üyrete, aytdı: – Alanı içlerinde közleriŋ, qulaqlarıŋ bolurğa kerekdile.Kyiamyt, not forgetting as usual to throw a stone into Biymurza's garden, pointing his finger at him, knitting his brows like a scrap of ram's hide, said instructively: "Among them you must have eyes and ears."

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