sen ayt, men ayt derge

/sen ajt, men ajt derɡe/

Literal translation

to say "you speak, I speak"

To keep pushing the thing that has to be said onto one another, so that neither party ever comes out and says it plainly.

Sen ayt, men ayt dep, aytıllıq zatnı bir birine kürey turğanlarında, Azret, tözüb turalmay, sözge qoşuldu.While they were shovelling onto one another the thing that had to be said, each telling the other to speak, Azret could not bear it and joined in the talk.

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