tüpsüz çelek kibik
/typsyz tʃelek kibik/
This expression has 2 meanings.
Literal translation
like a bottomless bucket
Intended meaning
Of a person: given to lying and impossible to rely on.
- Tüpsüz çelek kibikdile Horaları, – dedi Gonday."The Khoralalar are like a bottomless bucket," said Gonday.
Literal translation
like a bottomless bucket
Intended meaning
Of a thing: yielding no return and never sufficing, however much goes into it.
- Jıl işlesem, ol bir ayğa bizge bolmayd, Tüpsüz çelek kibik, küfüm örge tolmayd.Though I work a year, it does not last us a month; like a bottomless bucket, my grain bin never fills to the top.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 474