ઓટલો વાળ્યો બાપના.

ōṭalō vāḷyō bāpanā.

Literally: Swept clean the father's porch.
What it means: Brought complete ruin or exhaustion upon one's own ancestral estate.

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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