માગ્યે તાગ્યે ઘર ચાલે તો ખસમ કરે મ્હારી બલા.

māgyē tāgyē ghara cālē tō khasama karē mhārī balā.

Literally: If the house runs on begging and borrowing, then why on earth should I keep a husband?
What it means: A husband is useless if a wife still has to beg and borrow to run the household.

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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