emina quruğu kibik
/emina quruʁu kibik/
Literal translation
like the pole of the plague
Intended meaning
Exceedingly tall and lanky, said of a person.
- Bizni ol halıbızğa tamatanı emina quruqğa uşağan üy biyçesi, al burun töze kelse da, artdan-artha kesini gınttısın körgüzte başlağandı.The elder's wife, who looked like a plague-pole, put up with that state of ours at first, but little by little she began to show her stubborn streak.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 518