sarı suw bolurğa
/sarɯ suw bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become yellow water
Intended meaning
To lose one's strength and be left worn out and drained, whether by illness or by grief and hardship.
- Qazawat adamlanı jüreklerin sarı suw etib turğan keziwde, bizni üyürübüznü arqawu sınŋan sağatda: «Quwançıbız bardı», – dep qonşulağa aytırğa da tartındıq.In the time when the war was draining people's hearts of all strength, at the hour when our family's backbone was broken, we shrank even from telling the neighbours, "We have something to celebrate."
Variants
- sarı suw eterge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 390
- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеологиясы (2007), p. 155