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“ കോഴിമുട്ട ഉടെപ്പാൻ കുറുന്തടി വേണമൊ”
English Translation:
Do you need a heavy club to break a hen’s egg? (Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut; employing wildly excessive force on a fragile, simple matter.)

“ നായിനെകാണുമ്പോൾ കല്ലുകാണുകയില്ല, കല്ലുകാണുമ്പോൾ നായിനെ കാണുകയില്ല”
English Translation:
When you spot the dog there is no stone at hand, and when you find a stone the dog is nowhere to be seen. (Resources and opportunities rarely align; means and targets never seem to coincide at the right moment.)

“ സുഖദുഖാദികൾ വെള്ളത്തിൽഇട്ട ഉതളങ്ങ പോലെ”
English Translation:
Joys and sorrows are like an odollam fruit bobbing upon water. (Fortunes rise and sink incessantly with the shifting swells of circumstance; worldly states are fluid and unstable.)