qabuğun alırğa
/qabuʁun alɯrʁa/
Literal translation
to take someone's bark off
Intended meaning
To do away with someone — to kill them, or to put them through cruel suffering.
- Bu eki-üç künde men alanı qabuqların bılay sıdırıb almasam, börkümü atıb, başıma jawluq qısarma.If in these two or three days I don't strip their hides off them like this, I'll throw my cap away and tie a kerchief on my head.
Variants
- terisin alırğa
- qabuğun sıdırırğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 282
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 143