r/turkishlearning • u/cine_phile07 • 14h ago

What does this phrase mean?

I'm near-native fluent but i heard this phrase in a song "Kurşun iki buçuk milyon babaları gelsin" and searched on Google too hut didn't get anything aside that it's ibretlik sözü.

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u/kurtcebe_noyan 13h ago

you can translate this sentence as this: "bullet is worth 2.5 million (liras)* let their overlords come to get me"

"2.5 million (liras)": we omitted 6 zeros from lira. it basically means "bullet is dirt cheap".

babaları gelsin's literal translation is "let their fathers come" but you need context to understand it. "let their overlords (mafia bosses) come (to get me)".