tayaqdan atlağısız bolurğa
/tajaqdan atlaʁɯsɯz bolurʁa/
Literal translation
to become unable to step over a stick
Intended meaning
To become powerless and destitute; to be reduced to feebleness and poverty.
- Mayna Hızırları bıltır, kişi aythanŋa da qaramay, çınttı elge aytılğan berne etib, Payruznu ızından jibergen edile, kesleri da tayaqdan atlağısız bolğan edile.Last year the Khyzyrs, heeding nobody, sent Payruz off with a dowry the whole village talked about, and they themselves were left without a thing to their name.
- Ol qıyın awruwdu. Andan alqın adam ölmegendi, özge tayaqdan atlağısız etib qoyadı.It is a hard illness. Nobody has died of it yet, but it does leave one utterly helpless.
Variants
- tayaqdan atlağısız eterge
Sources
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 439
- Малкъар тилни школ фразеология сёзлюгю (1994), PDF page 195
- Къарачай тилни фразеология сёзлюгю (1992), p. 218