közü kötürülmezge
/køzy køtyrylmezɡe/
Literal translation
for one's eye not to be lifted
Intended meaning
To be unable to cheer up at all — never playing or laughing, but staying constantly downcast.
- Meni jawum da közü kötürülmegen, jüregi jarımağan adamğa qarasın.Let even my enemy look upon a person whose eye has never lifted, whose heart has never gladdened.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 254