eçkiçi çurum
/etʃkitʃi tʃurum/
Literal translation
goatherd's pretext
Intended meaning
A groundless pretext put forward only to give people something to argue or gossip about.
- İşçi nögerime zamanında kele tur dep, ayta-ayta ketib, eçki çurumlarından erigib, tohtap qalğanma.I kept telling my workmate over and over to come on time, and having grown weary of his goatherd's excuses, I gave it up.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 525