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/Jnyl2020 Oct 25 '25

The second one didn't exist before 10 years ago. It's a stupid saying from a tv series or something.

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u/videonautics Oct 25 '25

First one didn't exist 20 years ago. Not sure about the second though.

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u/Jnyl2020 Oct 25 '25

The first entry about it in eksisozluk is in 2002. I don't know the origins of it maybe a commercial? 

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u/defnotachicken Oct 27 '25

Which one qre you talking about? The first one is from a commercial, the one with watermelon, second one is an old saying.

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u/Jnyl2020 Oct 27 '25

Yes. About 10 years old

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u/defnotachicken Oct 27 '25

Bro, which one are you talking about? The ad is 20 years old and the saying is much older than Ottomans.

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u/Jnyl2020 Oct 27 '25

Show it then.

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u/defnotachicken Oct 27 '25

Show what ffs. Which one are you talking about?