दिल्ली अभी दूर है

Hindi

Etymology

Calque of Classical Persian دهلی هنوز دور است (dihlī hanōz dūr ast). Literally meaning “Delhi is still far away”.

Proverb

दिल्ली अभी दूर है • (dillī abhī dūr hai) (Urdu spelling دلی ابھی دور ہے)

1. there's many a slip twixt cup and lip; there is still much work to be done

Further reading

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दिल्ली”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 497