salam otça
/salam ottʃa/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Literal translation
like a straw fire
Intended meaning
To lose one's temper instantly, blazing up in anger at the slightest provocation and subsiding just as fast.
- Holerik temperamentleri bolğan adamla salam otça janarla, olsağat şoşayğan da alay terk eterle.People of choleric temperament flare up like a straw fire, and they settle down again just as quickly.
Literal translation
like a straw fire
Intended meaning
Immediately; in a moment, with no delay at all.
Variants
- salam otça janarğa
- salam otça juqlanırğa
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 387
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 199