harapkan pegar, pegar makan padi
Malay
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- harapkan pagar, pagar makan padi (misspelling)
Etymology
[edit]Literally, “expecting a pheasant to come over but to eat rice.”
Verb
[edit]harapkan pegar, pegar makan padi
- (idiomatic) to hope for a person to do something, only for said person to sell down the river the one who hoped for them.