બેઠક Bethak

બધી કહેવતોAll of them, by first letter.

1234 sayings. Ones with an English meaning come first.

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20 sayings starting with

  1. ડાબા હાથની વાત જમણાને ખબર ન પડે

    ḍābā hāthanī vāta jamaṇānē khabara na paḍē

    Done so quietly that not even the next person along hears of it.

  2. ડાબા હાથનો ખેલ

    ḍābā hāthanō khēla

    So easy he could do it without attending to it.

  3. ડાબા હાથે ચીજ મુકી દેવી

    ḍābā hāthē cīja mukī dēvī

    To part with something as though it had never mattered.

  4. ડબ્બો ગુલ કરી નાખવો

    ḍabbō gula karī nākhavō

    To finish a thing off for good.

  5. ડાચામાં બાળવું

    ḍācāmāṁ bāḷavuṁ

    To eat it up rather than share a scrap of it.

  6. ડાચું વકાસીને બેસવું

    ḍācuṁ vakāsīnē bēsavuṁ

    To sit there gaping while it all happens.

  7. ડાગળી ખસવી

    ḍāgaḷī khasavī

    To lose your reason.

  8. ડહાપણની દાઢ ઊગવી

    ḍahāpaṇanī dāḍha ūgavī

    To finally acquire some sense — usually late and painfully.

  9. ડાહી સાસરે ન જાય ને ગાંડીને શિખામણ આપે.

    ḍāhī sāsarē na jāya nē gāṁḍīnē śikhāmaṇa āpē.

    Instruction from somebody who has carefully avoided doing the thing.

  10. ડાહીબાઈને બોલાવો ને ખીરમાં મીઠું નખાવો

    ḍāhībāīnē bōlāvō nē khīramāṁ mīṭhuṁ nakhāvō

    Call in the expert and watch them ruin it.

  11. ડાકણેય એક ઘર તો છોડે

    ḍākaṇēya ēka ghara tō chōḍē

    Even the worst of them keeps somewhere they will not touch.

  12. ડાંફાં મારવા

    ḍāṁphāṁ māravā

    To wander about looking busy and arriving nowhere.

  13. ડાંગે માર્યા પાણી જુદા ન પડે

    ḍāṁgē māryā pāṇī judā na paḍē

    Some bonds cannot be broken by force from outside.

  14. ડાફરિયાં દેવા

    ḍāphariyāṁ dēvā

    To loiter around gawping instead of doing anything.

  15. ડારો દેવો

    ḍārō dēvō

    To frighten somebody into behaving.

  16. ડીંડવાણું ચલાવવું

    ḍīṁḍavāṇuṁ calāvavuṁ

    To carry on a business that has long stopped making any sense.

  17. ડીંગ હાંકવી

    ḍīṁga hāṁkavī

    To tell it considerably larger than it happened.

  18. ડોશી મરે તેનો ભો નથી, જમ ઘર ભાળી જાય તેનો વાંધો છે

    ḍōśī marē tēnō bhō nathī, jama ghara bhāḷī jāya tēnō vāṁdhō chē

    The first loss matters less than the fact that trouble now knows the way.

  19. ડૂબતો માણસ તરણું પકડે

    ḍūbatō māṇasa taraṇuṁ pakaḍē

    At the end, people reach for whatever is nearest, however useless.

  20. ડુંગર દૂરથી રળિયામણા

    ḍuṁgara dūrathī raḷiyāmaṇā

    Close up it is all rock and climbing.