બાઈ મ્હાંનાં મેળાં, ને ગામનાં લોક લુચ્ચાં.

bāī mhāṁnāṁ mēḷāṁ, nē gāmanāṁ lōka luccāṁ.

Literally: The lady is soft-spoken, and the village people are cunning.
What it means: A gentle or naive person is easily taken advantage of by a deceitful community.

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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