tilinde suw bolmazğa

/tilinde suw bolmazʁa/

Literal translation

for there to be no water on one's tongue

To have had nothing at all to eat or drink; to be famished.

Tsey tarında dügerli malçıladan alıb çıqğan adırgı aşları bügün erttenlikde oquna tawusulğandı. Andan beri tillerinde suw joqdu [partizanlanı].The emergency food they had taken from the Digor herders in the Tsey gorge ran out this very morning. Since then [the partisans] have had nothing to eat or drink.

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