qoy ayağınlay aşarğa

/qoj ajaʁɯnlaj aʃarʁa/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

to eat (something) like a sheep's shank

To keep people or a whole community cowed by deceit and force and live off the fruits of their labour.

Abirek ulanla Sıntı-qalasında, oyra, jaşayla. Baylanı, biyleni ala qoy ayağınlay aşayla.The outlaw lads live at Synty-Kala, oyra. The rich and the nobles they devour like a sheep's shank.
Alay, ölüm bir jetse... qırallanı qoy ayağınlay aşağan patçahla oquna başlarına andan qutulurğa madar tapmağandıla.Yet once death comes... even the tsars who devoured whole kingdoms like a sheep's shank found no way of saving themselves from it.

to eat (something) like a sheep's shank

To consume something completely and neatly, without any trouble or effort.

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