qaphanŋa tüşerge

/qapxanŋa tyʃerɡe/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

to fall into a trap

To be seized and held for one's own wrongdoing, with no way of getting free.

Tüşgense, naças, endi qaphanŋa!Now you have fallen into the trap, you scoundrel!
Mında ua juwuğum joq, qaphanŋa tüşgen börüça, qalay turayım?I have no kin here — how am I to go on, like a wolf caught in a trap?

to fall into a trap

To let oneself be taken in by another person's lying words.

Ma, bola turğan işleni mağanasın kesim da aŋılayalmay, alay aythanıma ayıp etme, qaphanŋa tüşdüm.Look, do not blame me for speaking so — I could not grasp the meaning of what was happening myself; I was taken in.
Teyri, kesim da eslemey turğanlay, uwaq-uwaq men munu qaphanına jıyıla, jalınçaq bola bara bolurma.Truly, without noticing it myself, little by little I must be gathering into his trap and turning servile.

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