jer teşik bolsa, kirirça bolurğa

/dʒer teʃik bolsa, kirirtʃa bolurʁa/

Literal translation

if the ground had a hole, to be ready to go into it

To be so overcome with embarrassment that one does not know where to put oneself.

Seyir-tamaşa bolub, bir birge qaradıq. Bütün da men ötürükçü bolğanıma bek uyaldım. Alay qıyın tiydi, jer teşik bolsa, kirirça boldum.We looked at one another in astonishment. I was all the more ashamed at having turned out to be a liar. It stung so badly that if the ground had had a hole in it, I would have crawled inside.
«Bu ariw qız meni üy biyçem bolluqdu!» – dep qıçırğan edi Volodya, tögerekni zıŋırdata. Jer teşik bolsa, kirib keter edim."This beautiful girl is going to be my wife!" Volodya had shouted, setting the whole place ringing. If the ground had had a hole in it, I would have gone right into it.

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