yeşil ışık yakmak

Turkish

Etymology

Compound of yeşil ışık (“green light”) +‎ yakmak (“to light”), literally “to light the green light”; from the traffic lights.

Verb

yeşil ışık yakmak (third-person singular simple present yeşil ışık yakar)

1. (idiomatic) to allow, to let, to permit

References

• “yeşil ışık yakmak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu