tüplü-başlı bolurğa
/typly-baʃlɯ bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become bottom-and-top
Intended meaning
Of two people: to struggle with each other for the upper hand, each trying to overpower the other, until the matter is settled one way or the other.
- Ala ekisi da, tüplü-başlı bola, bir az zamannı turdula. Sora nemetsli soldat Jünüsnü köküregine biçaqnı ururğa tebiregenley, artından bizni askerçileni biri jetib, sarı soldatnı alayda qapladı.The two of them went at each other for a while, one on top and then the other. Then, just as the German soldier was about to drive his knife into Zhunyus's chest, one of our soldiers came up from behind and pinned the fair-haired soldier down on the spot.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 474