Turkish · The Terraces
Yıkıl git karşımdan!
yuh-KUHL GEET kar-shuhm-DAHN · /jɯˈkɯɫ ɟit kaɾʃɯmˈdan/
Get out of my sight / do one
3/5 Watch your audience
genuinely rude; friends only, never at work
Literally
"Collapse and go from before me"
Word-for-word — which is rarely what it means.
How to use it
A contemptuous "get out of my sight" — hurled at a floundering player, a hated ref, or anyone you're done with. "Yıkıl karşımdan" (collapse out of my presence) is gloriously dramatic dismissal. Not obscene, but pure disdain; friends-and-fury register. Off the pitch it works in any furious brush-off.
Heard in the wild
Bir işe yaramadın, yıkıl git karşımdan!
You were useless — get out of my sight!
Where it lands
Turkey-wide; informal
Quick answers
- What does "Yıkıl git karşımdan!" mean?
- In Turkish, "Yıkıl git karşımdan!" means "Get out of my sight / do one". Literally it's "Collapse and go from before me". A contemptuous "get out of my sight" — hurled at a floundering player, a hated ref, or anyone you're done with. "Yıkıl karşımdan" (collapse out of my presence) is gloriously dramatic dismissal. Not obscene, but pure disdain; friends-and-fury register. Off the pitch it works in any furious brush-off.
- Is "Yıkıl git karşımdan!" offensive?
- It's genuinely rude — a 3/5 (Watch your audience) on the Punch-o-Meter. Fine among friends, never at work or with people you've just met.
- How do you pronounce "Yıkıl git karşımdan!"?
- Say it "yuh-KUHL GEET kar-shuhm-DAHN" — capitals mark the stressed syllable. In IPA: jɯˈkɯɫ ɟit kaɾʃɯmˈdan.
Related in Turkish
Lan LAHN Man / dude / hey — a rough vocative that dials the whole sentence up or down Amına koyayım! ah-muh-NAH koy-AH-yuhm Fucking hell / goddammit / fuck this Siktir git! sik-TEER GEET Fuck off / piss off Salak sah-LAHK Idiot / dummy Aptal ap-TAHL Stupid / fool Gerizekalı geh-ree-zeh-kah-LUH Moron / imbecile
The same idea, elsewhere
Via concepts like "Get lost".
- French Casse-toi, pauvre con ! Get lost, you pathetic idiot
- German Hau ab! Get lost! / Clear off! / Beat it!
- Greek άντε γαμήσου Go fuck yourself / get lost / piss off.
- Italian Vaffanculo! Fuck off! / Go to hell!
- Japanese 死ね Drop dead / go die
- Korean 꺼져 Get lost / piss off — you're telling a human to power down.
- Polish spierdalaj Fuck off / piss off.
- Portuguese Vagabundo Bum / lowlife / good-for-nothing (f. 'vagabunda' = slut)
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