mejege bere barsaŋ, jee barır

/medʒeɡe bere barsaŋ, dʒee barɯr/

Literal translation

if you keep giving to the boundary, it will keep creeping on

Said of a boundlessly greedy or grasping person, whose demands keep growing the more one gives in to them.

Mejege bere barsaŋ, jee barır dep, Temirjan ne qadar küreşib işley barsa, Geriy da ol qadar jaŋı eterni izley bara edi.As the saying goes, "if you keep giving to the boundary, it will keep creeping on" — the harder Temirjan struggled and worked, the more new things Geriy kept demanding.

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