kesim aythan degen
/kesim ajtxan deɡen/
Literal translation
who says "what I said"
Intended meaning
Said of someone who insists on having their own way and defers to no one else's judgment.
- Jawharatnı kim da biledi. Ol sözge usta, çemer adamdı. Çaçları ağarıb, bet terisi jıyırılsa da, kesin jaş qızlaça jürütürge bek süedi. Hamam da kesim aythan dep turadı.Everyone knows Dzhauharat. They have a gift for words, a clever person. Even though their hair has gone grey and the skin of their face has wrinkled, they dearly love to carry themselves like the young girls. And they are forever saying, "It is as I say."
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 235