qılıç kibik

/qɯlɯtʃ kibik/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

like a sword

Of a person: tall, straight and slim-built.

Qılıç kibik jaş allıbızğa bılay bolub kellikdi dep kim bilallıq edi?Who could have known that the lad who was slim as a sword would come before us in such a state?

like a sword

Of a thing, especially a stretch of time: dragging on without ever coming to an end.

Qılıç kibik qışnı uzununa suwuqdan qıynaldıq, ne otunubuz, ne kömürübüz bolmay.All through that never-ending winter we suffered from the cold, having neither firewood nor coal.

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