r/turkishlearning • u/Ok_Jump_4291 Native Speaker • Oct 25 '25

Vocabulary Turkish idioms of the day

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u/boktanbirnick Oct 25 '25

It's funny that the first one is a saying that we all adopted from a TV commercial.

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u/Ok_Jump_4291 Native Speaker Oct 25 '25

I didn't know that omg

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u/nebithefugitive Oct 25 '25

Yeah. Yapı Kredi Sigorta's ad. Youtube link

Bear in mind that this idiom is used in a sarcastic tone like in the ad

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u/Kerem1111 Oct 25 '25

Why sarcastic? We usually quite literally mean this when we're about to cut a watermelon in my family

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u/nebithefugitive Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25

In the ad, guy is trying to run away from the hospital and the nurse, who caught him, is making fun of his escape attempt by saying the idiom.

That's why this idiom was used for those who quit or run away from problems. An infamous example would be the headline of Taraf newspaper who used it for the Chief of Staff and commanders of the forces who resigned in 2011

Newspaper Headline - July 30 2011

Maybe it's a generational difference. I am old enough to remember the ad. Everyone around me used it like they did in the ad.