qaziy qanı bolurğa
/qazij qanɯ bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to be a qazi's blood
Intended meaning
To rise enormously in price; to become exorbitantly expensive (with the causative variant, to make something exorbitantly expensive).
- Jaz başında biçenni qaziy qanı etedile.In early spring they price hay sky-high.
- Han, quwanıb, jüz arba, jüz atlı da qurap, Qabartığa jiberdi. Kyabahan da, hannı tohanalarından ese tuwğan jerini dorbunların saylap, qarındaşını qanın aldı. Ma anı üçün bağa zatha «qaziy qanı» kibikdi deydile.The khan, overjoyed, fitted out a hundred carts and a hundred riders and sent them to Kabarda. Kyabakhan, choosing the caves of her native land over the khan's palaces, took the blood-price for her brother. That is why they say of a costly thing that it is like "a qazi's blood".
Variants
- qaziy qanı eterge
- qaziy qanı kibik
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 285