- Literally
- The weight of the mustard seeds went in the night.
- What it means
- An opportunity or advantage vanished completely overnight before it could be seized.
- The English proverb Shah set beside it
- Every rogue is at length outrogued.
Also said as
- ડાહીના ડહાપણ, ને ગોટીના ગારસા.
- પાણીએ દીવા બળી ગયા.
- વર રનો વાસી, પેહેરામણી ગઇ નાસી.
- એ તો ગેસ એલાઈ ગયા.
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