Literal translation
Stretch your feet only as far as your covering.
Contextual meaning
What it means
Stretch your feet only as far as your covering.
When people use it
In everyday life
Catalogued from a traditional Pashto proverb collection. Its usage and regional context still require specialist review.
Editorial record
Source and status
- Source
- S. S. Thorburn, “Bannú: Or Our Afghan Frontier” (1876), UNCLASSED-17, PDF page 456. https://archive.org/download/bannuorourafgha00thor/bannuorourafgha00thor.pdf