બેઠક Bethak

સાસુ વહુની એક સાડી, સાસુ પેહેરે તો વહુ ઉઘાડી.

sāsu vahunī ēka sāḍī, sāsu pēhērē tō vahu ughāḍī.

Literally
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law share one sari; if the mother-in-law wears it, the daughter-in-law is naked.
What it means
Said of a situation of extreme scarcity where two people must compete for the same single resource.
The English proverb Shah set beside it
Two of a trade seldom agree.
ગુજરાતી કહેવતસંગ્રહ (Gujarati Kahevat Sangrah) (1923) · 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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