suwuq közlü qararğa
/suwuq køzly qararʁa/
Literal translation
to look with a cold eye
Intended meaning
To regard someone or something without approval or esteem, showing little respect for them.
- Ata jurtha suwuq közlü qarasaŋ, Ol meni toyğan jerimd dep oylasaŋ, Quru anı bla Ata jurt – jurt bolmayd, Anı allında ulanlıq borç tolmaydIf you look on the Fatherland with a cold eye, if you think of it only as the place where I eat my fill, the Fatherland is no homeland by that alone, and the duty of manhood before it goes unfulfilled.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 418