elni tübün başına etgen
/elni tybyn baʃɯna etɡen/
Literal translation
who has turned the village's bottom into its top
Intended meaning
A gossip who stirs people up against one another; a person who sows discord throughout a community.
- Qasay qızınamı aytasa? Ket, telimi bolğansa, ol bitew elibizni tübün başına etib aylanŋan tilçidi.Are you talking about Kasay's daughter? Come off it, have you lost your mind — that's the gossip who goes around turning our whole village upside down.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 517