બહેત ગોયા ને ઊગ્યા ઘાસ.

bahēta gōyā nē ūgyā ghāsa.

Literally: Sowed much and only grass grew.
What it means: Great efforts and investments yielded absolutely no useful results.

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) · 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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