kırk kapının ipini çekmek

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- kırkı çıkmak

",-kı 1. forty. 2. very many; far too many. - anahtar sahibi/- anahtarlı man of property; very rich person. - bir buçuk maşallah!/- bir kere maşallah! colloq. May no harm befall him/her/it! -ı çıkmak /ın/ for forty days to have passed (after a woman has given birth/after a baby has been born/after someone has died). -/bin dereden su getirmek to find all kinds of excuses. - evin kedisi person who is always in and out of other people´s houses. - ikindi afternoon rains (which continue about forty days in certain regions of Anatolia). - kapının ipini çekmek to go to or apply to many places. -ları karışmak to be born with-in the same forty-day period. -ından sonra azanı teneşir paklar./-ından sonra azana çare bulunmaz. proverb If a middle-aged man starts acting like a randy young buck, it won´t be long until he kicks the bucket. -ından sonra azmak to start behaving like a randy young buck after one has reached middle age. -ından sonra saz çalmak to take up something rather late in life. -/her tarakta bezi olmak to have one´s finger in many pies; to be involved in many different things. - yılın başı/başında/- yılda bir very seldom, once in a blue moon. - yıllık Kâni, olur mu Yani? proverb Can a leopard change its spots?"