tutar üy bolayım
/tutar yj bolajɯm/
Literal translation
let me be the house that keeps you
Intended meaning
Said in mock dismay at how much someone eats, marking them out as a glutton.
- E, jaş, ağaçda qalğan kibik, nedi bu aşağan! Ket-ket-ket, seni tutar üy bolayım! – dedi anası.Hey, boy, the way you eat you'd think you'd been left out in the woods! Off with you, off, off — may I be the house that has to keep you fed! – said his mother.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 463