Lütfen ekmeği maşayla al.
- Please take the bread with the tongs.
Ateş maşasıyla işaret parmağımı yaktım.
- I burned my forefinger on fire tongs.
these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs in some lists: in order to make a tong one needs a tong, and how could the first tong be made without a tong?.
It's on the tip of my tongue.
- It is on the tip of my tongue.
Ouch! I bit my tongue.
- Ouch! I bit my tongue!