બેઠક Bethak

પડોસીની હવેલી જોઈ પોતાનું ઝુપડું તોડી પાડવું.

paḍōsīnī havēlī jōī pōtānuṁ jhupaḍuṁ tōḍī pāḍavuṁ.

Literally
Seeing the neighbor's mansion, tearing down one's own hut.
What it means
Destroying what one has out of jealousy for someone else's success, without having the means to replace 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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