qolu qolğa ayağı ayaqğa jetmezge

/qolu qolʁa ajaʁɯ ajaqʁa dʒetmezɡe/

Literal translation

for one's hand not to reach one's hand, one's foot not to reach one's foot

To do something very quickly and with bustling, restless energy.

Zalihat alay, qolu – qolğa, ayağı ayaqğa jetmey, jürügende, Jabrail Loqmanoviç kölsüzden kölsüz bolub baradı.When Zalikhat bustles about like that, hands and feet never catching up with each other, Jabrail Lokmanovich grows more and more dispirited.
Suw qamişça bügüle, künnü kün uzunu qızçıq Tarsan biyge atası bla birge qulluq etib turadı. Tarsan biy, qolu qolğa jetmey, jeŋil jumuş etgen qızdan közün ayırmay qaraydı.Bending like a reed in the water, the girl waits on Tarsan Bey all day long together with her father. Tarsan Bey cannot take his eyes off the girl, who does the errands so fast, her hands never catching up with each other.

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