બધી કહેવતોAll of them, by first letter.

પાડા મૂંડવાં

pāḍā mūṁḍavāṁ

To pour effort into something that was never going to come to anything.

પાડા ઉપર પાણી

pāḍā upara pāṇī

It runs straight off — nothing you said made the slightest impression.

પડતો બોલ ઝીલવો

paḍatō bōla jhīlavō

To anticipate someone's every wish and act on it before they finish asking.

પઢાવેલો પોપટ

paḍhāvēlō pōpaṭa

Someone reciting exactly what they were coached to say.

પડી પટોડે ભાત, ફાટે પણ ફીટે નહિ

paḍī paṭōḍē bhāta, phāṭē paṇa phīṭē nahi

True quality survives ruin; the thing may break but it does not become false.

પડ્યા પર પાટું

paḍyā para pāṭuṁ

Striking a person who is already down.

પડ્યો પોદળો ધૂળ ઉપાડે

paḍyō pōdaḷō dhūḷa upāḍē

Once a person has fallen, they only gather more disgrace where they lie.

પગ કુંડાળામાં પડી જવો

paga kuṁḍāḷāmāṁ paḍī javō

To get yourself entangled in something disreputable.

પગ લપસી જવો

paga lapasī javō

To make the moral lapse everyone was hoping you would avoid.

પગ ન ઊપડવો

paga na ūpaḍavō

To be unable to make yourself go, however much you should.

પગભર થવું

pagabhara thavuṁ

To become able to support yourself.

પગચંપી કરવી

pagacaṁpī karavī

To fawn on a person in the hope of getting something out of them.

પગલાં પાડવા/પગલાં ઓળખવા

pagalāṁ pāḍavā/pagalāṁ ōḷakhavā

To honour a place by visiting it — and, of a person, to be known by the tracks they leave.

પગપેસારો કરવો

pagapēsārō karavō

To get a foothold somewhere you were never invited.

પાઘડી ફેરવી નાખવી

pāghaḍī phēravī nākhavī

To go back completely on what you gave your word to.

પાઘડીનો વળ છેડે આવે

pāghaḍīnō vaḷa chēḍē āvē

How a thing was really done comes out eventually.

પહેલો ઘા પરમેશ્વરનો

pahēlō ghā paramēśvaranō

Whoever strikes first has the advantage.

પહેલો સગો પાડોશી

pahēlō sagō pāḍōśī

In an emergency the person next door is nearer than any blood relation.

પહેલું સુખ જાતે નર્યા, બીજુ સુખ ઘેર દીકરા, ત્રીજું સુખ ગુણવંતી નાર, ચોથુ સુખકીડીએ જાર.

pahēluṁ sukha jātē naryā, bīju sukha ghēra dīkarā, trījuṁ sukha guṇavaṁtī nāra, cōthu sukhakīḍīē jāra.

The four things counted as a complete life, in order of what matters most.

પહેલું સુખ તે જાતે નર્યા

pahēluṁ sukha tē jātē naryā

Health comes before every other good thing.

પહોંચેલ માયા/બુટ્ટી

pahōṁcēla māyā/buṭṭī

Said of somebody far too worldly-wise to be caught out.

પઈની પેદાશ નહિ ને ઘડીની ફુરસદ નહિ

paīnī pēdāśa nahi nē ghaḍīnī phurasada nahi

Busy from dawn to dusk with absolutely nothing to show for it.

પૈસા તો ડાબા હાથનો મેલ છે

paisā tō ḍābā hāthanō mēla chē

Money is worth nothing beside the things that actually matter.

પૈસાનું પાણી કરવું

paisānuṁ pāṇī karavuṁ

To pour money away on nothing.

પૈસો મારો પરમેશ્વર ને હું પૈસાનો દાસ

paisō mārō paramēśvara nē huṁ paisānō dāsa

Said of a person whose every decision is made by their purse.

પાકા ઘડે કાંઠા ન ચડે

pākā ghaḍē kāṁṭhā na caḍē

A character already set will not be reshaped — least of all in old age.

પલાળ્યું છે એટલે મૂંડાવવું તો પડશે જ ને

palāḷyuṁ chē ēṭalē mūṁḍāvavuṁ tō paḍaśē ja nē

Having started, you are going to have to see it through.

પંચ કહે તે પરમેશ્વર

paṁca kahē tē paramēśvara

The community's collective verdict is final and beyond appeal.

પાંચમાં પૂછાય તેવો

pāṁcamāṁ pūchāya tēvō

A person of standing, whose opinion is sought when it matters.

પાંચમની છઠ્ઠ ક્યારે ન થાય

pāṁcamanī chaṭhṭha kyārē na thāya

What is fixed is fixed — no amount of wishing rearranges it.

પાંચે ય આંગળી ઘીમાં

pāṁcē ya āṁgaḷī ghīmāṁ

Prospering on every side at once.

પાંચે ય આંગળી સરખી ન હોય

pāṁcē ya āṁgaḷī sarakhī na hōya

People differ — even children of the same house.

પાંચે ય આંગળીએ દેવ પૂજવા

pāṁcē ya āṁgaḷīē dēva pūjavā

To be blessed on every side.

પાણી ચડાવવું

pāṇī caḍāvavuṁ

To work a person up until they act.

પાણી દેખાડવું

pāṇī dēkhāḍavuṁ

To put a person firmly in their place.

પાણી માપવું

pāṇī māpavuṁ

To quietly test how deep a person or a situation actually goes.

પાણી પહેલા પાળ બાંધી લ

pāṇī pahēlā pāḷa bāṁdhī la

Do the preparing before the crisis, not during it.

પાણી પાણી કરી નાખવું

pāṇī pāṇī karī nākhavuṁ

To shame a person until there is nothing left of their composure.

પાણી ફેરવવું

pāṇī phēravavuṁ

To wipe out in one stroke everything that had been built up.

પાણી પીને ઘર પૂછવું

pāṇī pīnē ghara pūchavuṁ

To act first and find out what you have got yourself into later.

પાણી ઉતારવું

pāṇī utāravuṁ

To take a person down in front of others.

પાણીચું આપવું

pāṇīcuṁ āpavuṁ

To dismiss a person from their post.

પાણીમાં બેસી જવું

pāṇīmāṁ bēsī javuṁ

To collapse completely.

પાણીમાં રહીને મગર સાથે વેર ન બંધાય

pāṇīmāṁ rahīnē magara sāthē vēra na baṁdhāya

Do not pick fights with the powerful in the place where you have to go on living.

પાણીમાંથી પોરા કાઢવા

pāṇīmāṁthī pōrā kāḍhavā

To hunt for faults that nobody else would have bothered to look for.

પાનો ચડાવવો

pānō caḍāvavō

To stir a person up into doing something.

પાંસરુંદોર કરી નાખવું/થઈ જવું

pāṁsaruṁdōra karī nākhavuṁ/thaī javuṁ

To be put firmly back in line.

પાપ છાપરે ચડીને પોકારે

pāpa chāparē caḍīnē pōkārē

Wrongdoing announces itself in the end, however quietly it was done.

પાપડતોડ પહેલવાન

pāpaḍatōḍa pahēlavāna

A great boaster whose strength has never been tested on anything harder.

પાપડી ભેગી ઈયળ બફાય

pāpaḍī bhēgī īyaḷa baphāya

The innocent get caught up in the punishment meant for the guilty.

પાપનો ઘડો ભરાઈ જવો

pāpanō ghaḍō bharāī javō

For a person's wrongdoing to reach the point where the reckoning arrives.

પાપી પેટનો સવાલ છે

pāpī pēṭanō savāla chē

Said of something a person does only because they have to eat.

પરચો આપવો/દેખાડવો

paracō āpavō/dēkhāḍavō

To show a person exactly what you are capable of.

પારકા છોકરાને જતિ કરવા સૌ તૈયાર હોય

pārakā chōkarānē jati karavā sau taiyāra hōya

People are wonderfully generous with sacrifices that cost them nothing.

પારકા કજિયા ઉછીના ન લેવાય

pārakā kajiyā uchīnā na lēvāya

Do not take on a fight that was never yours.

પારકે ભાણે લાડુ મોટો દેખાય

pārakē bhāṇē lāḍu mōṭō dēkhāya

What other people have always seems better than what you were given.

પારકે પાદર પહોળા થવું

pārakē pādara pahōḷā thavuṁ

To be splendidly generous on ground that costs you nothing.

પારકે પૈસે દિવાળી

pārakē paisē divāḷī

Celebrating handsomely at another person's expense.

પારકે પૈસે પરમાનંદ

pārakē paisē paramānaṁda

Enjoying yourself thoroughly on a bill you will not be paying.

પારકી આશા સદા નિરાશા.

pārakī āśā sadā nirāśā.

Depend on someone else and you will be let down.

પારકી છઠ્ઠીનો જાગતલ

pārakī chaṭhṭhīnō jāgatala

A person who takes enormous trouble over matters that are none of their business.

પારકી લેખણ, પારકી શાહી, મત્તું મારે માવજીભાઈ

pārakī lēkhaṇa, pārakī śāhī, mattuṁ mārē māvajībhāī

Taking the credit for something built entirely out of other people's resources.

પારકી મા જ કાન વિંધે

pārakī mā ja kāna viṁdhē

Only an outsider will do the hard thing that actually needed doing.

પારકી પંચાતમાં શું કામ પડવું

pārakī paṁcātamāṁ śuṁ kāma paḍavuṁ

Nothing good has ever come of joining a quarrel you were not part of.

પરણ્યા નથી પણ પાટલે તો બેઠા છો ને?

paraṇyā nathī paṇa pāṭalē tō bēṭhā chō nē?

You may not have finished the thing, but you have committed yourself to it past the point of backing out.

પાશેરામાં પહેલી પૂણી છે

pāśērāmāṁ pahēlī pūṇī chē

You have barely started — there is a great deal of this still to come.

પાઠ ભણાવવો

pāṭha bhaṇāvavō

To punish a person in a way they will remember.

પથારો પાથરવો

pathārō pātharavō

To sprawl a simple matter out into a great untidy business.

પથ્થર ઉપર પાણી

paththara upara pāṇī

Advice that runs straight off without soaking in anywhere.

પાટિયાં બેસી જવાં

pāṭiyāṁ bēsī javāṁ

For a business to go under.

પત્તર ખાંડવી

pattara khāṁḍavī

To go on at length about nothing at all.

પવન પ્રમાણે સઢ ફેરવવો

pavana pramāṇē saḍha phēravavō

To adjust your position to whatever is blowing at the time.

પેટ છે કે પાતાળ ?

pēṭa chē kē pātāḷa ?

Said of an appetite — for food, or for anything else — that nothing seems to fill.

પેટ ચોળીને શૂળ ઊભું ન કરાય

pēṭa cōḷīnē śūḷa ūbhuṁ na karāya

Do not go manufacturing trouble that was not there before you started.

પેટ કરાવે વેઠ

pēṭa karāvē vēṭha

Hunger puts people to work they would never otherwise agree to.

પેટ મોટું રાખવું

pēṭa mōṭuṁ rākhavuṁ

To be large-hearted enough to let things pass.

પેટ પકડીને હસવું

pēṭa pakaḍīnē hasavuṁ

To laugh until you cannot stand up straight.

પેટ પર પાટું મારવું

pēṭa para pāṭuṁ māravuṁ

To take away the living a person feeds their family on.

પેટ ઠારવું/પેટ બાળવું

pēṭa ṭhāravuṁ/pēṭa bāḷavuṁ

To be satisfied — or, the other way, to be eaten up with envy.

પેટછૂટી વાત કરવી

pēṭachūṭī vāta karavī

To say the whole of it, keeping nothing back.

પેટમાં ઘુસી જવું

pēṭamāṁ ghusī javuṁ

To work your way into a person's confidence.

પેટમાં પેસીને પગ પહોળા કરવા

pēṭamāṁ pēsīnē paga pahōḷā karavā

To be let in as a guest and end up behaving as the owner.

પેટમાં ફાળ પડવી

pēṭamāṁ phāḷa paḍavī

For your heart to lurch with sudden fear.

પેટનો બળ્યો ગામ બાળે

pēṭanō baḷyō gāma bāḷē

A person eaten up by their own misery spreads it to everyone around them.

પેટનો ખાડો પૂરવો

pēṭanō khāḍō pūravō

To scrape together just enough to eat.

પેટનું પાણી ન હલવું

pēṭanuṁ pāṇī na halavuṁ

To be completely unmoved by something that ought to have shaken you.

પેટપૂજા કરવી

pēṭapūjā karavī

To sit down to a proper meal.

પેટે પાટા બાંધવા

pēṭē pāṭā bāṁdhavā

To go without, and bind yourself tight so the hunger shows less.

પેટિયું રળી લેવું

pēṭiyuṁ raḷī lēvuṁ

To make just about enough to eat and no more.

પીળું તેટલું સોનું નહિ, ઊજળું તેટલું દૂધ નહિ

pīḷuṁ tēṭaluṁ sōnuṁ nahi, ūjaḷuṁ tēṭaluṁ dūdha nahi

Do not take a thing for what it appears to be.

પીઠ પાછળ ઘા

pīṭha pāchaḷa ghā

A betrayal by somebody who was standing behind you.

પિયરની પાલખી કરતાં સાસરિયાની સૂળી સારી

piyaranī pālakhī karatāṁ sāsariyānī sūḷī sārī

A married woman's standing is with her husband's household, however hard it is there.

પોબારા ગણી જવા

pōbārā gaṇī javā

To slip away quietly before anybody notices.

પોચું ભાળી જવું

pōcuṁ bhāḷī javuṁ

To find the weak place in a person and go straight for it.

પોદળામાં સાંઠો

pōdaḷāmāṁ sāṁṭhō

Something worthless making a show of itself in worse surroundings.

પોલ ખૂલી ગઈ

pōla khūlī gaī

The thing that was being covered over has come out.

પોપાબાઈનું રાજ

pōpābāīnuṁ rāja

A byword for a place where nothing is governed and nobody is answerable.

પોપટીયું જ્ઞાન

pōpaṭīyuṁ jñāna

Repeating it perfectly and understanding none of it.

પોત પ્રકાશવું

pōta prakāśavuṁ

For a person's real character to become visible at last.

પોતાના પગ નીચે રેલો આવે ત્યારે જ ખબર પડે

pōtānā paga nīcē rēlō āvē tyārē ja khabara paḍē

Nobody understands a trouble until it arrives at their own door.

પોતાની ગલીમાં કુતરો પણ સિંહ

pōtānī galīmāṁ kutarō paṇa siṁha

Anybody is brave on their own ground.

પોતાનો કક્કો જ ખરો કરવો

pōtānō kakkō ja kharō karavō

To hold that you are right no matter what anybody puts in front of you.

પોથાં તે થોથાં, અને ડાચાં તે સાચાં.

pōthāṁ tē thōthāṁ, anē ḍācāṁ tē sācāṁ.

What people actually say and do carries further than anything written down.

પોથી માંહેના રીંગણા

pōthī māṁhēnā rīṁgaṇā

Learning that stays on the page and never once gets used.

પોતિયા ઢીલા થઈ જવા

pōtiyā ḍhīlā thaī javā

To be frightened out of all composure.

પોતિયું કાઢીને ઊભા રહેવું

pōtiyuṁ kāḍhīnē ūbhā rahēvuṁ

To abase yourself completely in front of somebody.

પ્રાણ અને પ્રકૃતી સાથે જ જાય

prāṇa anē prakr̥tī sāthē ja jāya

A person's character leaves them only when their life does.

પ્રસાદી ચખાડવી

prasādī cakhāḍavī

Said drily of giving a person the thrashing they had coming.

પ્રીત પરાણે ન થાય

prīta parāṇē na thāya

Affection cannot be extracted from anybody by force.

પુણ્ય પરવારી જવું

puṇya paravārī javuṁ

For the good fortune that had been carrying a person to be finally used up.

પુરાણ માંડવું

purāṇa māṁḍavuṁ

To launch into an account that is going to take all evening.

પુત્રના લક્ષણ પારણામાંથી ને વહુના લક્ષણ બારણામાંથી

putranā lakṣaṇa pāraṇāmāṁthī nē vahunā lakṣaṇa bāraṇāmāṁthī

What a person is going to be is visible from the very first moment.

પાટો બાઝવો

pāṭō bājhavō