tawuq ayağıça sarğalırğa

/tawuq ajaʁɯtʃa sarʁalɯrʁa/

Literal translation

to turn yellow like a chicken's foot

To lose all colour from fright, illness or shock, with the blood draining from one's face.

Nafisat harib a, tawuq ayağıça sarğalıb, başında da teşilmegen jeri qalmay, jata edi.Poor Nafisat lay there, gone yellow as a chicken's foot, with not a spot on her head left unbroken.

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