qoy odalğa siŋença
/qoj odalʁa siŋentʃa/
Literal translation
as if soaked into a sheep pen
Intended meaning
Wholly given over to a life of ease and indulgence; sunk in pleasure-seeking.
- Üç künden sora da kördü Mahmut malçını. Qurman anı tanımadı. Qız, nöger jaşça, tütünlep, qara halek bolub aylana edi oramda jaŋı «qarındaşla» bla. Qoy odalğa siŋença, siŋen edi zawuq jaşawğa.Three days later Makhmut saw the herdsman again. Kurman did not recognize them. The girl was out on the street with her new "brothers", smoking like one of the lads, gone completely to ruin. She had sunk into a life of pleasure the way a sheep melts into the fold.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 314