ખાંડના બન્નરમાં ગયા, પણ નહીં ચાખેઓ મીઠાસ.

khāṁḍanā bannaramāṁ gayā, paṇa nahīṁ cākhēō mīṭhāsa.

Literally: Went to the sugar market and never tasted the sweetness.
What it means: Surrounded by the thing and got no good of it.

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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