san-san bolurğa
/san-san bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become limb-limb
Intended meaning
To be torn apart or gravely wounded, as by an explosion or a violent blow.
- Siz, er kişile, ana jürekni bilmeysiz. Ol qıyınlıq sınağandan ese, men san-san bolayım.You men do not know a mother's heart. Rather than have that misery be suffered, let me be torn to pieces.
- Seyir edi, Muhtar ança kere san-san bolub, kökge suwurulğanda, Hakimge bir zat da bolmadı.It was strange: though Mukhtar was blown to pieces and hurled into the sky so many times, nothing at all happened to Hakim.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 388