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“Telugu:
అడ్డెడు తవ్వెడు బియ్యము యిచ్చి అమ్మా నీ ప్రసాదము అన్నట్టు”
English Translation:
Like giving [a cook] two and a half measures of rice and saying, “Madam, this is your gift.”The cook gets four-fifths of the rice for herself, and yet she must be coaxed to cook the food. The allusion is to a traveller endeavouring to get some person to cook for him.

“Telugu:
గాము సోకినట్టు”
English Translation:
As though possessed of a devil.

“Telugu:
తిన్నయింటి వాసాలు యెన్నేవాడు”
English Translation:
A man that counts the rafters of his benefactor’s house.A story is told of a man who counted the rafters, &c., of a house in order that he might take possession of it and found his claim to it on this knowledge. Hence the term is applied to a person basely attempting to swindle another, who had befriended him, out of his property.All’s lost that’s put into a riven dish.