üzümü ye bağını sorma

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • üzümünü ye de bağını sorma

Etymology

Literally, “eat the grape and do not ask its vineyard”. The saying is attested as early as 1394, as Old Anatolian Turkish یِی اُوزم بَاغِی سُورْمَاغِلْ (yé üzüm bāġı sormaġıl, “eat grape and do not ask the vineyard”).

Pronunciation

Proverb

üzümü ye bağını sorma

  1. one should not investigate the origin of the things that benefit them

Further reading

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