tuzu-mıstısı joqdu

/tuzu-mɯstɯsɯ dʒoqdu/

Literal translation

its salt and its sour seasoning are absent

Said of something that carries no meaning and is of no value or use whatsoever.

Ol a [Hamzat biy], suw tirmen kibik, tohtamay bardıradı ne tuzu, ne mıstısı bolmağan kereklini, kereksizni da, ol aytmağan zat joqdu.And he [Khamzat the bey], like a water mill, keeps grinding on without stopping — the needful and the needless alike, things with neither salt nor sourness in them; there is nothing he has not said.

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