eçki japhaq kibik
/etʃki dʒapxaq kibik/
Intended meaning
Said of someone who is thin, wasted and of no use.
- Qanitat, qonşu kiewnü eçki japhaq kibik gırhıçıq bolğanın körgende, tışından zat aytmasa da, içinden a: «Ol ıspaslı bolsun, meni jaşıma kelirge unamağan ese ua!» – dep, quwanŋan edi.When Kanitat saw that the neighbours' son-in-law was a scrawny little thing like a goat hide, she said nothing outwardly, but inwardly she rejoiced: «Good luck to him, if he would not agree to come to my son!»
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 525