quwğanın tabarğa
/quwʁanɯn tabarʁa/
Literal translation
to find what one chased
Intended meaning
To come to grief as the result of a bad habit one keeps up without stopping.
- Jamal quwğanın taphandı. Ötürüknü artı bir tutum dep, aman iş igilikge jetdirmeydi.Jamal has found what he was chasing. As they say, a lie lasts only a handful of time — a bad deed leads to nothing good.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 341