Idioms - Punjabi

Jagtar smiled and clapped him on the back. " Putar, hun tu samajh gya? Rooli di rakhi naal khet nahi hunda. Jadon tak pind na phire, tera naa nahi chadna. (You can't farm by just drawing lines. Until you walk the village, your name won't spread.) You walked through the mud. Now the village knows your name."

One day, the loan shark came back. "Give me my money or I take your buffalo." punjabi idioms

But Fateh had the fever. He borrowed money from a loan shark in town. For two months, he drove the truck proudly. Then came the inevitable. He overloaded the truck, took a sharp turn near the canal, and flipped the whole vehicle into the mud. The truck was a wreck. The loan shark sent goons to the farm. Jagtar smiled and clapped him on the back

The neighbors now called him "Businessman Fateh." Jadon tak pind na phire, tera naa nahi chadna

And from that day on, whenever a young villager talked of quick riches, the elders would just point at Fateh and say, " Dekh othe adh jalda takka bhadkya! (Look, the half-burnt log has finally caught fire!)"

The words hit Fateh harder than the truck crash.

"Father… I have lost everything," Fateh whispered.