boyunun uzatıb
/bojunun uzatɯb/
Literal translation
stretching out one's neck
Intended meaning
To plead humbly with someone, putting oneself in the position of a supplicant asking for help or a favour.
- Egeç-qarındaş, ata-ana bolmasa, andan [qatından] da ayırılsaŋ, boyunuŋu uzatmay bolmazsa.If you have no brother or sister, no father or mother, and you part from her [your wife] as well, you will have no choice but to go begging.
- Altın ierli qarator jorğanı nohtasından nohta bawğa tutdurluqnu allında da boyunumu sozallıq tüyülme.Even before the man who could tie a golden-saddled dark-bay pacer by its halter in his stable, I will not stretch out my neck to beg.
Variants
- boyunun sozub
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 143