Idioms and proverbs in songs

Abhijit

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Oct 24, 2006, 4:05:01 AM10/24/06

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Let's do another song listing exercise. This time for lyrics containing
idioms or proverbs. I begin straight OTOMH:

- sun sun gaa.Nv kii gorii (tere ruup ke aage **paanii bharatii**
shaharo.n kii har chhorii)

- ek chatur naar (**naach na jaane aa.ngan Te.Dhaa**)

- kal kyaa hogaa kisako pataa (**bhaanumati ne kunabaa jo.Daa...**)

- phirakii waalii tuu kal phir aanaa (**nahii.n phir jaanaa tuu apanii
jabaan se**)

- raatakalii ek Kwaab me.n aa_ii (**aa.Nkh unhii.n se chaar huii**)

- **gardish me.n ho taare**

Shree

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Oct 24, 2006, 4:15:05 AM10/24/06

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jhoot bole kavvaa kaate

skalr...@yahoo.com

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Oct 24, 2006, 12:23:03 PM10/24/06

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ye munh aur daal masuur kii.... (Baarish); and

ye munh aur masuur kii daal... (Around The World).

Happy Listenings.

Satish Kalra

vrk

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Oct 25, 2006, 1:02:13 AM10/25/06

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I guess you will have to stick to lokoktee or proverbs because idioms
or muhaavre would abound. simple examples that immediately come to mind

kaaghaz ke phool
mere kaan mat khaao - mem didi
dabaa le daanto tale ungliyaan - namak halaal
kauvve udaanaa - thoDisee zameen
milee khaak me muhabbat - chaudahveen kaa chaand

there will be numerous others. I mean for pete's sake they are idioms
arent they.

proverbs could be a different ball game. might not be that many except
in comedy songs or in dialogue based songs.

apnaa haath jagannaath was the name of a film but did it have a title
song
i remember some song having aankh ke andhe gaanth ke poore but cannot
place it
ek anaar sau beemaar was from a dharmendra film filmed on johhny walker
prob baazi sung by manna de
ek aur ek gyaarah from the sel film of the same name
i remember chadh jaa betaa soolee par bhalee karenge raam in some
kishore kumar song cant place that either
was there a kishore talat duet by chitragupta which went chamdee jaaye
par damdee naa jaaye
another song had chaar dinon kee chaandni phir andheri raat
bade bade miyaan to bade miyaan chhoTe miyaa subhaan allaah from the
amitabh govindaa starrer
kehte hain jahaan naa ravi pahunche ...kavi pahunche is the variant of
a proverb from sss
jaan bachee to laakho paaye has come in many songs
jaako raakhe saaiyaan maar sake naa koee from mard amitabh's - must
have figured in other songs too
sachhe kaa bolbaalaa jhoothe kaa munh kaalaa from the devanand film of
the same name
naach naa jaane aangan teDhaa -te-te-te-Dha from that paDosan classic
i am sure nirbal ke bal ram was a bhajan in many films
baap baDaa na bhaiyya ...from sabse baDaa rupaiyya
i remember bhains ke aage been bajaanaa in another comedy song cant
place it now
man hee man me laDDoo phooTe from kabhee aar kabhee paar is another
munh me raam bagal me chhuri was there in one amitabh song cant
remember
saavan jale bhaadon jale is an approximation of saavan hare naa bhaadon
suukhe
thats from khushboo

but very interesting thread. makes you think.

Abhijit

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Oct 25, 2006, 7:40:06 AM10/25/06

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Here we go. You have come up with heaps of "kahaavat"s and only a
handful of "muhaavaraa"s in your examples. Yet you say "I guess you

will have to stick to lokoktee or proverbs because idioms or muhaavre

would abound"!! A good effort nonetheless.

Even though there may be many songs with idioms, I would still like to
see which of the idioms are generally used and in what context.

guz...@hotmail.com

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Oct 25, 2006, 6:58:01 PM10/25/06

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'naam baRe aur darshan chhote'---Albela

Vijay

irfan

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Oct 25, 2006, 8:07:34 PM10/25/06

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guz...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Abhijit wrote:

> > vrk wrote:
> >
> > Even though there may be many songs with idioms, I would still like to
> > see which of the idioms are generally used and in what context.
>
> 'naam baRe aur darshan chhote'---Albela
>
> Vijay

Two proverbs in one mukh.Da
aamdani athanni kharcha rupiya
o bhaiya
na poochho na poochho haal
nateja thann thann gopal
Anand Bakhshi/ kalyanji Veerji shah
Asha/ Mohinder Kapur/ film Teen Bahuraniyan

Regards,

Irfan

skalr...@yahoo.com

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Oct 25, 2006, 9:03:58 PM10/25/06

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"uunchii uunchii dukaan phiikaa phiikaa pakwaan....." - Pehli Jhalak,
1954.

Happy Listenings.

Satish Kalra

Abhijit

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Oct 25, 2006, 10:49:16 PM10/25/06

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**ba.nd muTThii laakh kii, khulii to Kaak thii** has been used in few
songs. I remember two right now: "ba.nd thii muTThii laakh kii, khulii
jo pyaare Kaak thii" and "ba.nd thii muTThii do? laakh kii, khul ga_ii
to phir Kaak thii".

Also, **nii.nd churaanaa** has been frequently used in songs.

Hema

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Oct 26, 2006, 2:13:32 PM10/26/06

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I think "Than Than gopal" means zero. If that is true, Anand Bakshi was
not very good in math. nateeja should be negative, shouldn't it? :-)

Hema.