છાસમાં કડવાસ નાખી કુટુંબને ભુખે મારવું.

chāsamāṁ kaḍavāsa nākhī kuṭuṁbanē bhukhē māravuṁ.

Literally: Putting bitterness into the buttermilk and starving the family.
What it means: Spoiling the little there is, so that nobody gets even that.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · 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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