This happened about 10 years back..
While sitting at the breakfast table, my daughter kept swinging her leg, which kept banging into mine and then I turned around and said, in Hindi, "Sau sonaar ki, ek lohaar ki."
This started off a discussion of what it meant and whether there was an equivalent of this, in English.
Which led me into a hunt for more English equivalents of Hindi Proverbs.
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