नौ दो ग्यारह होना (nau do gyaarah hona)

Meaning: To flee or run away quickly.

Language: Hindi

Literally: To become nine, two, eleven

Category: The Absurd

Origin: A playful old Hindi number trick: the figures nine and two 'add up' to a fugitive's hasty, scrambling escape.

More idioms — The Absurd

• Пасти с Марса (Pasti s Marsa) — To be totally out of touch with what's going on.
• На баба ми хвърчилото (Na baba mi hvarchiloto) — Something utterly irrelevant or nonsensical.
• C'est l'hôpital qui se fout de la charité — Said when someone criticizes another for a flaw they share themselves; the pot calling th…
• rhyme or reason — Any logical sense or reasonable explanation.
• blow up in one's face — To fail spectacularly or cause a plan to collapse in an embarrassing way.
• one is a poet and doesn't know it — Someone has unintentionally created a rhyme or spoken in verse without realizing it.

More Hindi idioms

• अंगूर खट्टे हैं (Angoor khatte hain) — To scorn what you secretly want but cannot have.
• आ बैल मुझे मार (Ā bail mujhe mār) — To deliberately invite trouble upon yourself.
• नाक में दम करना (naak mein dam karna) — To harass or pester relentlessly.
• नाक रगड़ना (nāk ragaṛnā) — To grovel and beg humbly.
• आसमान सिर पर उठाना (aasmaan sir par uthaana) — To raise a huge uproar.
• ऊँट के मुँह में जीरा (Ūṅṭ ke muṅh meṅ jīrā) — A laughably tiny amount for something that needs much more.

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