Pabucu dama atılmak
Meaning: To fall out of favor and be cast aside.
Language: Turkish
Literally: To have one's shoe thrown on the roof
Category: Daily Life
Origin: Ottoman cobblers tossed a botched or out-of-fashion shoe up onto the roof; the disgraced thing was simply discarded.
More idioms — Daily Life
- Être dans de beaux draps — To be in a real mess.
- Tirer le diable par la queue — To struggle to make ends meet.
- Mettre la charrue avant les bœufs — To do things in the wrong order.
- Tirer son épingle du jeu — To extract yourself cleverly from a tricky situation.
- To burn the midnight oil — To work late into the night.
- To throw a spanner in the works — To sabotage or disrupt a plan.
More Turkish idioms
- İğneyle kuyu kazmak — To undertake a painfully slow, laborious task.
- Havadan sudan konuşmak — To make idle small talk.
- Pireyi deve yapmak — To blow something tiny out of all proportion.
- Armudun sapı var, üzümün çöpü var — To find fault with absolutely everything.
- Pabuç pahalı — Things are getting dangerous; time to be careful.
- İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmak — To rush and pressure someone relentlessly.
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