otdan kölek kierge
/otdan kølek kierɡe/
This expression has 3 meanings.
Literal translation
to put on a shirt of fire
Intended meaning
To be unable to bear someone or something; to detest it.
- Rotmistr Seryabryakov qıl çaynaydı, otdan kölek kiedi.Rotmistr Seryabryakov gnaws his whiskers, he cannot stand it.
Literal translation
to put on a shirt of fire
Intended meaning
To become violently angry.
- Endi sabiyleni anası ua, erini ol tashasın sezgenley, otdan kölek kiygendi.And the children's mother, the moment she sensed that secret of her husband's, flew into a rage.
- Annya, Elmez baylanı mahtasa, sen otdan kölek nek kiese?Annya, when Elmez praises the rich, why do you fly into a rage?
Literal translation
to put on a shirt of fire
Intended meaning
To be seized with boundless fear and panic.
- Adam öltürüb, murdar boldum dep, otdan kölek kieme. Neden da bek mağanasız açıw tiygeni ua, som-şay eteme dep kelib, bir mağanasız jerde türmege tüşüb qalırğa bolluğumdu.Having killed a man, thinking I have become a murderer, I am seized with terror. And the most senseless hurt of all is that, having come to earn a bit of money, I may end up in prison in some meaningless place.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 379
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 196