taşnı sığıb, qan çığarğan

/taʃnɯ sɯʁɯb, qan tʃɯʁarʁan/

This expression has 2 meanings.

Literal translation

squeezing blood out of a stone

Of the time of life when a person's strength has come in fully — youth at its most vigorous and bold.

Teyri, seni da taşnı sığıb, qan çığarğan zamançığıŋdı.By God, this is your prime too — the age when you could squeeze blood from a stone.
Üç jıyırma jıl degeniŋ nedi tawlu kişige? Hayt degen, taşnı sığıb, suw çığarır zamanı.What is sixty years to a highlander man? He is in his vigor, at the age when he could squeeze water from a stone.

one who squeezes blood out of a stone

A bold, energetic, resourceful person.

Ol zamanda jıyırma bir jıllıq, taşnı sığıb, qan çığarır, uçhan quşdan tük alır degen, kim da suqlanırça, hayt degen jaş edi.Back then he was a twenty-one-year-old, the sort they said could squeeze blood from a stone and pluck a feather from a flying eagle — a spirited lad anyone would envy.

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