qarını bururğa

/qarɯnɯ bururʁa/

Literal translation

for one's belly to twist (like a spindle)

To set one's heart on something that cannot come about; to nurse a hopeless expectation.

Qarağız egeçden tuwğanŋa, haparnı bilmegenley, aldap, eşik açdırırğa, bir amanlıq eterge qarını buradı. Hı... teyri, sanıbız jartı bolsa da, küçübüz bla başıbız alıqın sawdula, – dedi Aznawur.Look at my sister's son — he knows nothing of what has happened, yet he nurses the vain hope of tricking us, of getting the door opened, of doing us some harm. Hah... by God, our bodies may be half gone, but our strength and our wits are still alive, said Aznauur.
Jaşdan qartha jıyğan ırıshımı, ma dep, aŋa qoyub, bakığa batdırıb ketmesem a, bodurqu anasını, kesini da qarınları burur, – dedi Goguş.If I don't simply hand over to him the wealth I gathered from my youth to my old age and let him sink it in the trough, then that puffed-up fellow and his mother will be hoping for the impossible, said Gogush.

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