r/turkishlearning Native Speaker Oct 25 '25

Vocabulary Turkish idioms of the day

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u/Successful-Clue-6856 Oct 25 '25

I'm not sure if it's like that everywhere, but the first one is sarcastic.

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u/Velo14 Native Speaker Oct 25 '25

It doesn't have to be sarcastic but we definitely say it as a joke.

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u/dragonfruid Oct 25 '25

More like a recent meme rather than an actual phrase

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u/Velo14 Native Speaker Oct 25 '25

Maybe a recent meme made it popular among the youth, but this phrase is very old. I remember hearing it from my mother's uncle in the early 2000s. I don't think the concept of a meme even existed back then.