tawuq boyununa kezlik salmağan
/tawuq bojununa kezlik salmaʁan/
Literal translation
who has not laid a knife to a chicken's neck
Intended meaning
Of a person who has no experience of killing or butchering an animal — untried and squeamish in such work.
- Kesi jaşawunda tawuq boyununa kezlik salmağan sabiy, jaş börünü qalay sıdırıb başlarğa bilmey, arsarlanıb turğanlay, artlarından bir er kişi çıqdı.While the child, who in all their life had never laid a knife to a chicken's neck, stood hesitating, not knowing how to begin skinning the young wolf, a man came up behind them.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 433