બેઠક Bethak

ભાયડો એવું શું રળે, કે રાંડ રોંટા કરે?

bhāyaḍō ēvuṁ śuṁ raḷē, kē rāṁḍa rōṁṭā karē?

Literally
What does the husband earn that the wife should make bread?
What it means
Said when a husband's earnings are so meager that they barely justify the effort of running the household.

Also said as

  • ભાગ્યો ગધેડા બમણે વહે.
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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