બેઠક Bethak

પોલે પાને ભગવાનદાસ, લુગડાં પહેરે સો પચાસ.

pōlē pānē bhagavānadāsa, lugaḍāṁ pahērē sō pacāsa.

Literally
Bhagwandas on hollow ledger pages, wearing fifty or a hundred clothes.
What it means
Dressing in grand clothes while one's financial accounts are completely bankrupt.

Also said as

  • પોસનું નાળિયેર પૈડે પુટે.
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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