can some one translate this Urdu Idiom/phrase?
matlab ki hai ye duniya!
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a selfish world?
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There are no free lunches in life
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selfish is Khudgharz!
“a selfish world” would translate… duniya khudgharz hai…Right?
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YES! that is so true 
Khana tuo Muft kaheen naheen Milta!
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no…i’m afraid not!
matlabii dunyaa kaa matlab hii GhudGharaz dunyaa hotaa hai.
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baray miyan to baray miyan chotay miyan subhan ALLAH
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Like son like father?
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or apna ullu seedha karana
unbend your owl?
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wo theek hai leken
muqa es tarah ki translation karen. 
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you mean like we used to ‘translate into English’ in schools?
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^ yes 
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Mr elder was enough, but Mr young… O Jesus! :halo:
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Mercenariness
مطلب پرستی ٬ خود غرضی
seems a little more appropriate meaning would be “the World is full of Mercinaries”
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Good one!
Can you translate into Urdu this common phrase young Californian use:
as if
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as if= aise jaise, aise ke
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goya
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right… john Aliya ki book ka tuhfa aap ke sath jae ga 
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^ wo hamaray paas pehlay say hay.. kuch aur inayat ho Dr. Saheb 
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Zahida Hinna ka ‘Raqs e Bismil’ chale ga?