jürek jarasına tuz quyarğa

/dʒyrek dʒarasɯna tuz qujarʁa/

Literal translation

to pour salt on the wound of the heart

To stir up someone's old grief and add fresh pain to the pain they already carry.

Marziyatnı alaysız da küe turğan jürek jarasına tuz quyğanla kimle bolur edile?Who could they have been, the ones who poured salt on Marziyat's heart-wound that was already burning?
Qıyamıt, «şıyıhnı» aytıb çıqğan sözleri jürek jarasına tuz sepgenley, tögerek aylanŋanın tohtatıb, közleri ot jarıqğa arala, sın taşça, örge süeldi.Kyamyt, as the words the "sheikh" had uttered sprinkled salt on his heart-wound, stopped his pacing about and, his eyes staring into the firelight, stood upright like a stone statue.

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