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.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 249
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 122