કરેલીઆની જલમાં ફસેલી માંખ.

karēlīānī jalamāṁ phasēlī māṁkha.

Literally: A fly caught in the spider's web.
What it means: Trapped in something built precisely to hold you, and struggling makes it worse.

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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