qol juwarğa
/qol dʒuwarʁa/
Literal translation
to wash one's hands
Intended meaning
To despair of someone or something and abandon all expectation of it, seeing no way left to act.
- Almalanı aslamı suwğa ketdi, jaşçıqla jıyğandan da qol juwarğa bolluq edi.Most of the apples went into the water; the boys might well have given up on gathering them.
- Ustazla, Hasan İsmailoviç bla Leonid Egoroviç, qalğanla Slavanı tüzelirinden qol juwğan edile.The teachers, Hasan Ismailovich and Leonid Egorovich, and the rest had given up on Slava's ever mending his ways.
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 317
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), PDF page 164