soqurğa sohta tutdurğança
/soqurʁa soxta tutdurʁantʃa/
Literal translation
as if making a blind man hold a sokhta (stuffed sausage)
Intended meaning
Said in mockery of palming a helpless person off with something worthless in place of what was promised — of cheating or making a fool of someone who cannot check what they are given.
- Duniyanı saŋa haznasın-hojasın eterbiz dep, bıltırdan qalğan jünlerin iyirtib, soqurğa sohta tutdurğança, maŋa eki uwuç tarılı tüyçük, eki gırtdam kögergen çıkkır bişlaq berib qoyğandıla [Qıyamıtları], – dedi Mölehan."After promising they would make all the world's treasure and riches mine, they [the Qiyamıts] spun last year's leftover wool and handed me two handfuls of millet grits and two mouldy lumps of curd cheese — like making a blind man hold a sausage," said Mölehan.
- Soqurğa sohta tutdurğança etdile bizge ua. Beşjüz somğamı berlikme janımı!As for us, they treated us the way you treat a blind man you hand a sausage to. Am I to give up my life for five hundred som!
Variants
- soqurğa sohta tutdurğanlay
- soqurğa sohta tutdurğan kibik
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 410
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 206