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“ കാക്കകുളിച്ചാൽ കുയിലാകുമൊ”
English Translation:
If a crow bathes in the river, will it become a singing cuckoo? (External imitation cannot endow a coarse nature with genuine grace or melody.)

“ ഉറി പോലെ”
English Translation:
Like a suspended kitchen pot-sling. (Hanging in precarious limbo, shifting helplessly with every slight breeze.)

“ താളിന്നുപ്പില്ല എന്നും താലിക്കു മുത്തില്ല എന്നും”
English Translation:
Complaining that the wild-leaf broth lacks salt, and that the marriage pendant lacks a pearl. (Chronic, petty fault-finding; whining about minor imperfections in humble food and sacred possessions alike.)