zıqısı ağarğa
/zɯqɯsɯ aʁarʁa/
Intended meaning
To lose one's strength and become helpless out of fear.
- Da, Harun bla sen taş başından anı üçün qarap tura bolur edigiz! Sizge barğan, tiygen da etginçi, qorqğandan, zıqığız ağa tura edi.Yes, that must be why you and Harun were watching from the top of the rock! Before anyone had even come at you or laid a hand on you, you were already going weak with fear.
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- Къарачай-малкъар тилни фразеология ангылатма сёзлюгю (2017), p. 221