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“ വീടുംകടത്തിനു ഈടു വീടും പറമ്പും (നാടും പണയം)”
English Translation:
As security for an overbearing mortgage, the house and homestead (or the entire estate) are pledged away. (Taking reckless loans risks the very roof over one’s head and leaves one’s ancestral inheritance in jeopardy.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ പകൽ കണ്ണുകാണാത്ത നത്തിനെ പോലെ”
English Translation:
Like the barn owl that cannot see by broad daylight. (Completely disoriented and blind in clear, transparent circumstances where everyone else sees the truth.)

“ ഒത്തപണിക്കു ഒരുകൊട്ട ആപ്പു”
English Translation:
A whole basket of wedges for work that supposedly fits. (If craftsmanship were truly precise, it wouldn’t require endless makeshift patches to hold together.)

“ നിന്റെവായികണ്ടാൽ വെളുത്തേടന്റെ അറതുറന്ന പോലെ”
English Translation:
Looking into your mouth is like opening the washerman’s linen storeroom. (Incessant, uncontrolled blabbering that airs everyone’s dirty laundry and exposes messy gossip.)