keçegi başın qoluna alıb

/ketʃeɡi baʃɯn qoluna alɯb/

Literal translation

taking the head of the night into one's hand

To get a task done even at night, however hard it may be.

Atası, anası esine tüşdüle. «Jaŋız sabiyleri busağatda kiyik tawnu başına atılıb qalğanın bilmeydile. Ol igi oqunadı. Bilsele ua, keçegi başların qollarına alıb, kelirge küreşir edile», – dep sağışlanadı Vera.Her father and mother came to mind. "They do not know that their only child is right now stranded on a wild mountain top. That is just as well. If they knew, they would work straight through the night to try to come," Vera thinks to herself.

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