kiştik quyruğu bla ot salğança

/kiʃtik qujruʁu bla ot salʁantʃa/

Literal translation

as if setting fire with a cat's tail

Said of a heedless person who causes enormous damage without meaning or noticing it.

Ne bolub tura esele da, barıb bir qarayım ansı, kiştik quyruğu bla ot salğança, meni bılay etib turğanım er kişini işi tüyüldü.Whatever is going on there, let me go and have a look — sitting here like this, as if I had set the place ablaze with a cat's tail, is no business for a man.
Balıq boynunda qozğalıwnu qurap, kiştik quyruğu bla ot salıb qaçhança, ağaçha qutulub ketib, bizni qolubuzğa tüşmezlik suna ediŋ da, endi ua uwuçha jıyğanma [Aslannı].[Khadzhibatyr:] You stirred up the revolt down by the river and then slipped away into the forest like someone who had set a fire with a cat's tail, thinking you would never fall into our hands — but now I have [Aslan] in my fist.

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