kalak it kibik
/kalak it kibik/
Literal translation
like a stray dog
Intended meaning
Said of someone fit for no kind of work who drifts about aimlessly; a jocular way of describing an idler.
- Birew, erinçeklikge horlatıb, zamanın, kalak it kibik, el tübünde aşıra ese, ol jarlıdan da jarlıdı.If a man, overcome by laziness, spends his time down in the village like a stray dog, he is poorer than the poor.
Variants
- kalak it itça
- kalak it itley
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 232