લીલા ઝાડ હેઠળ ભૂખે મરે તેવા છે.

līlā jhāḍa hēṭhaḷa bhūkhē marē tēvā chē.

Literally: He is the kind who would starve under a green tree.
What it means: Said of an extremely lazy or helpless person who cannot feed himself even in the midst of abundance.

ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) 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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