eliya çarçıq qobarmaz

/elija tʃartʃɯq qobarmaz/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

lightning will not knock a chip off it

So hard and unyielding that no one can work it or get any use out of it.

Jaralmayla bu tükküçnü, asırı qatıdan, eliya çarçıq qobarmaz bolub.They cannot split this block — it is so hard that lightning would not knock a chip off it.

lightning will not knock a chip off him

Said of a person who is boundlessly miserly and will not part with anything.

Ahmat, eliya çarçıq qobarmazça, bek qızğanç adamdı.Akhmat is an extremely stingy man — as if lightning could not knock a chip off him.

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