ProverbPedia

“ താൻ ചത്തു മീൻപിടിച്ചാൽ ആർക്കുകൂട്ടാ�”
English Translation:
If you die while catching fish, who is left to enjoy the curry? (What does it profit a person to exhaust their very life chasing wealth if they do not survive to enjoy it?)

“ തീക്കൊള്ളികൊണ്ടു അടികൊണ്ട പൂച്ച മിന്നാമിനുങ്ങിയെ കാണുമ്പോൾ പേടിക്കും”
English Translation:
A cat struck by a firebrand cowers upon seeing a firefly. (Once bitten, twice shy; severe trauma breeds an irrational dread of harmless things that vaguely resemble past pain.)

“ ഇടച്ചേരിനായരും കുരുത്തോലചൂട്ടും”
English Translation:
Like the Idacheri Nair and his dried coconut-frond torch. (A humorous phrase describing an inseparable pair, or someone persistently weighed down by an eccentric fixture.)