közden közge

/køzden køzɡe/

Literal translation

from eye to eye

Intended meaning

Of two people: directly and in person, each addressing the other openly with no intermediary.
  • Ol kitapnı oquğan, tıŋılağan adamğa da Barisbiyni közden közge açıq aytılmağan antı eşitilir edi.Even to the one who read that book, who listened to it, Barisbiy's oath — never spoken out face to face — would make itself heard.
  • Ol [Aymölek], ne sıltaw bla da busağatda atası bla közden közge qalmaz üçün, nege da hazırdı.[Aymölek] is ready for anything, on any pretext at all, so as not to be left face to face with their father just now.

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