ProverbPedia

“ നാരേൽകെട്ടി കോലേൽവീശി”
English Translation:
Tied with fiber string and swung upon a stick. (Treated like a puppet; manipulated, maneuvered, and dangled entirely at someone else’s whim.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ കരയുന്ന കുട്ടിക്കെ പാൽ ഉള്ളൂ”
English Translation:
Only the weeping child gets fed with milk. (The squeaky wheel gets the grease; one must vocalize a need to receive attention.)

“ തന്നിഷ്ട്ടം പൊന്നിഷ്ട്ടം, ആരാന്റെയിഷ്ട്ടം വിമ്മിഷ്ട്ടം”
English Translation:
One’s own desire is golden delight; another’s desire is sheer nuisance. (Selfish double standards; we indulge our own whims as precious while finding the wishes of others intolerable.)

“ കാക്കവായിലെ അട്ടചാകൂ”
English Translation:
Only in the beak of a crow does the leech meet its death. (Every bloodsucking parasite eventually encounters a predator suited to destroy it.)