બેઠક Bethak

આડે લાકડે આડા વેહ, ને આડા વસે ગામને છેહ.

āḍē lākaḍē āḍā vēha, nē āḍā vasē gāmanē chēha.

Literally
Crooked wood gets crooked wedges, and crooked people live at the edge of the village.
What it means
Severe measures must be used against difficult people, and troublemakers are kept at a distance.

Also said as

  • ગામને છેહ=ગામને છેડે. Desperate cuts have desperate cures.
ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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