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"1. remark; word. 2. expression, utterance, statement. 3. empty words, hot air, nothing but talk. 4. conversation, talk. 5. the subject of a conversation. 6. What nonsense!/That´s bull! -ı ağzında gevelemek to talk around the subject; not to come out with what´s on one´s mind. -ı ağzından kaçırmak to let something slip, say something inadvertently, let the cat out of the bag. -ı ağzında kalmak to be unable to finish what one was saying; (for someone) suddenly to go silent. - altında kalmamak to give as good as one gets (in an argument). -ı ağzına tıkamak /ın/ to shut (someone) up. - anlamaz 1. thickheaded; stupid. 2. obstinate, muleheaded. - anlatmak /a/ to try to bring (someone) round (to one´s own point of view), try to make (someone) understand something. - aramızda.... colloq. This is just between you and me./Let´s keep this to ourselves./Entre nous. - atmak 1. /a/ to make a rude remark about (someone) within his hearing. 2. /a/ to make an improper innuendo or suggestion to (a woman one doesn´t know), proposition. 3. to have a chat. -ını/ -ınızı balla kestim. colloq. Excuse me for interrupting you. -ını bilmek to think before one opens one´s mouth, be careful about what one says. -a boğmak /ı/ to drown (a topic) in a flood of words. -ı çevirmek/değiştirmek to change the subject. - çıkmak for a rumor to start going around. -ı çiğnemek to beat around the bush. -a dalmak to become lost in conversation. - değil. colloq. It´s serious./This isn´t just idle talk. - dinlemek to heed what one is told; to act on someone´s advice. - dokundurmak /a/ to make wisecracks (about), make barbed remarks (about). - düşmemek /a/ 1. for there to be no need for (someone) to talk. 2. (for someone) not to get a chance to speak. - etmek 1. /ı/ to gossip about (something). 2. /la/ to talk (with), chat (with). -ını etmek /ın/ to talk about (something). -ın gümrüğünü vermek slang to start yakking again; to keep on yakking. - işitmek to get a dressing down. - kaldıramamak not to be able to take a joke, not to be able to take it. - kıtlığında asmalar budayayım. colloq. You´re talking nonsense! - körüğü windbag (person). - lafı açar. colloq. One topic leads to another. -ı mı olur? colloq. Don´t mention it!/It´s a pleasure! (said to someone for whom one has done or wishes to do a favor). - ola. colloq. What hogwash!/It´s just so much hot air! - olur. colloq. There´ll be gossip./It´ll set tongues wagging. - olsun diye (saying something) just to make conversation, merely for the sake of saying it. -la peynir gemisi yürümez. proverb Mere talk won´t get anything done. - söyledi balkabağı. colloq. You´re full of bull! -ını şaşırmak to be at a loss for words. - taşımak to retail gossip. -a tutmak /ı/ to engage (someone) in conversation (thus causing him to stop what he´d been doing). -ı uzatmak to take a long time explaining something. - ü güzaf see lafügüzaf. - yetiştirmek 1. to reply quickly and in kind, promptly to give as good as one gets. 2. /a/ (for a child) to talk back to, sass (an older person). - yok. /a/ colloq. There´s nothing wrong with...."

"space behind, the back, the rear. -inde /ın/ following, pursuing (someone, something). -ini bırakmamak /ın/ 1. not to leave (someone) alone; to bother (someone) continually. 2. to follow (someone) around continually. 3. to persist in doing (something), not to give (something) up. -inde dolaşmak/gezmek /ın/ to follow (someone) around (in the hope of obtaining something from him). -ine düşmek /ın/ 1. to follow (someone) around. 2. to follow (someone) around (in the hope of obtaining something from him). 3. to try to obtain (something); to try to get (something) done. -inde gitmek /ın/ to follow (someone). -inden gitmek /ın/ 1. to follow (someone). 2. to follow in (someone´s) footsteps, follow the example set by (someone). -inden koşmak /ın/ 1. to follow (someone) around (in the hope of obtaining something from him). 2. to try to obtain (something); to try to get (something) done. - peşe one right after the other, one after another; one beside the other. -i sıra right behind (someone). -ine takılmak /ın/ to follow along after (someone), follow (someone) around. -ine takmak /ı/ to bring (someone) along with one; to cause (someone) to follow one."

"1. /ı/ to set (someone, something) free, let (someone, something) go, release. 2. /ı/ (for a plant) to put out, put forth (shoots, roots). 3. /ı/ to send, dispatch. 4. /ı, a/ to turn (an animal) out to graze in (a place); to channel or direct (something) into (a place). 5. /ı, a/ to let (someone, an animal) attack, turn (someone, an animal) loose on. 6. /ı, a/ to lower (something) into (a place). 7. /ı, a/ to add (something) to (a food). 8. /ı, a/ to require (someone) to pay or contribute (something) (as a head tax). 9. /a/ (for an animal) to attack (someone, something). 10. (for a ship) to move in various directions (while riding at anchor). Saldım çayıra, Allah/Mevla kayıra. colloq. I´ve turned the animals out to pasture (or I´ve let the children go out by themselves); God willing, they´ll come back safe and sound."

"1. to be gathered together, be collected. 2. to be summarized. 3. to be straightened up, be tidied, be picked up. 4. to smarten oneself up, tidy oneself up. 5. to pull oneself together; to set one´s house in order; to shape up; to get oneself together, get one´s act together. 6. to recover, get back on one´s feet (after an illness or a financial disaster)."

"1. (a destructive) fire, conflagration. 2. colloq. fever. 3. colloq. passionate love. 4. colloq. madly in love. - bombası fire bomb, incendiary bomb. - çengeli fire hook, fireman´s hook. -dan çıkmış gibi completely destitute, (someone) who has nothing but the shirt on his back. - çıkarmak to start a (destructive, uncontrollable) fire. -a körükle gitmek to add fuel to the flames, try deliberately to make a bad situation worse. - kulesi fire tower. -dan mal kaçırır gibi with unnecessary excitement and haste; very hastily and agitatedly. - merdiveni fire escape. - sigortası fire insurance. - var! Fire! -a vermek /ı/ (for an incendiary) to set (something) on fire. - yerine dönmek 1. (for a place) to become a madhouse; to turn into a bedlam. 2. (for a place) to be a complete mess, look like a cyclone had hit it."

1. on the point of, just about to: Âdem gitmek üzereyken when Âdem was just about to go. 2. to, for the purpose of: Antalya´ya gitmek üzere yola çıktı. He set out for Antalya. İstanbul´a inmek üzere vapura bindi. She boarded the steamer to go down to Istanbul. 3. on condition that, on the understanding that: Pazartesiye kadar geri vermek üzere sana yirmi bin lira veririm. I´ll loan you twenty thousand liras on condition that you pay it back by Monday. 4. being: Bu bahçede çoğu portakal olmak üzere elli ağacım var. I have fifty trees in this grove, most of them oranges. 5. as, just as: Meltem´in dediği üzere Tunç geç kaldı. Tunç was late, as Meltem had said he would be. 6. in accordance with: âdeti üzere in accordance with his custom.