नौ दो ग्यारह होना

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 — To be totally out of touch with what's going on.
На баба ми хвърчилото — 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.

अंगूर खट्टे हैं — To scorn what you secretly want but cannot have.
आ बैल मुझे मार — To deliberately invite trouble upon yourself.
नाक में दम करना — To harass or pester relentlessly.
नाक रगड़ना — To grovel and beg humbly.
आसमान सिर पर उठाना — To raise a huge uproar.
ऊँट के मुँह में जीरा — A laughably tiny amount for something that needs much more.

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