boyunun burub qaramazğa
/bojunun burub qaramazʁa/
Literal translation
not to turn one's neck and look
Intended meaning
To take no interest whatsoever in someone and give them no attention at all.
- Bolsa da, atam meni qatıma da kelmedi, boyunun burub da qaramadı.All the same, my father did not come near me, and did not so much as turn his head to look.
- Jetgenley, bek alğa, başha zatha boyunumu burmay, bügün atamdan eşitgen bir qawum zatnı, tawnu kırdıgı kibik, tatımlı sözleni jazdım.As soon as I arrived, before anything else, without turning my neck toward anything else, I wrote down a few of the things I had heard from my father that day, words as savoury as mountain grass.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 143