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Baal-baal bachna

बाल-बाल बचना
Meaning

To have a very narrow escape.

Literally: to be saved by a hair's breadth

See it in the verse

Baal-baal bachna in Iqbal’s couplets

Jawanon ko meri aah-e-sahar de
Phir in shaheen bachchon ko bal-o-par de
Give the young my dawn-time sigh of longing — and give these falcon-children their wings and their feathers once more.
Youth · The Falcon · Aspiration
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