qaqdı-soqdu eterge
/qaqdɯ-soqdu eterɡe/
Literal translation
to do knocking-and-striking
Intended meaning
To speak to someone in a sharp, jabbing way, carping at them and reproaching them.
- Çammak açıwlanadı. Men qoymağanem ansı, Kammanı qaqdı-soqdu eterik edi.Chammak gets angry. Had I not held him back, he would have laid into Kamma.
- Tuppuş: – Allah ol ıspaslı etsin, Nikolay starşina bolsa edi, biyağı sen, tört janıŋa qıçıra, adamlanı qorquta aylanır ediŋ, – dep, laqırda sözle bla kesi kibik jarlı, qart, qarıwsuz Zekeriyanı qaq-soq etdi.Tuppush said, "God grant him praise — if Nikolay were the sergeant-major, you would be at it again, shouting in all four directions, going about frightening people," and with joking words he carped at Zekeriya, who was poor, old and feeble just like himself.
Variants
- qaqsoq eterge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 287