કેડમાંથી ભાગ્યા, તે ઉભા શી રીતે થવાય?

kēḍamāṁthī bhāgyā, tē ubhā śī rītē thavāya?

Literally: Broken at the waist, how can one stand up?
What it means: Said of someone who has suffered a total loss of support or financial collapse and cannot recover.

Also said as

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1921) · 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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