eşek bilgen – arba jol

/eʃek bilɡen – arba dʒol/

Literal translation

what the donkey knows is the cart road

Said of a person who makes no effort to learn anything beyond a single familiar skill or routine; narrow, unresourceful and set in one track.

Eşek bilgen – arba jol dep, seyir eteme qonşu kelinŋe, ata-ana üyüne jürüb, kün uzunu sabiyleri, kesi da anda keçinib turğanlarına."What the donkey knows is the cart road" — so I say, marvelling at the neighbour's young wife, who keeps going to her parents' house and spends the whole day there, she and her children living off them.

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