ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
అడవి వుశిరికకాయ, సముద్రపు వుప్పు కలిశినట్టు.",”
— ,English Translation:
Like salt from the sea being mixed with Emblic Myrobalan grown in the [ distant] jungle.Usirikakaya is the Emblica Offleinalis.Used with reference to an advantage gained by an unlocked for coincidence.

“Telugu Proverb:
అడుగులోనే హంసపాదా”
— English Translation:
What! a caret in the commencement ?Said by a man to an ignorant scribe who, in writing the customary invocation ""Sri Ramarajya"" at the heading of a letter, omitted a syllable.Blundering at the very beginning of any business.He who begins ill finishes worse. (Italian.)Well begun is half done.

“Telugu Proverb:
అడుసులో నాటిన స్తంభము”
— English Translation:
A post fixed in the mire [swinging to and fro].Said of a time server.To sit on two stools. (Latin) ​

“Telugu Proverb:
అడ్డగోడమీది పిల్లి”
— English Translation:
Like the cat on the cross wall.It can jump down either side.Applied to an unprincipled, double-dealing person.Jack o' both sides.

“Telugu Proverb:
అతడు వుంటే మంగలివాణ్ని అయినా పిలుచును”
— English Translation:
[Like a widow saying] “if he were alive, he would at least call the barber.”This is a reproach to the husband as being a useless fellow only fit to be employed as a messenger, and is also a joke, as the widow only, and not the wife, requires the services of a barber, to shave her head.

“Telugu Proverb:
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 Proverb:
అతిరహస్యం బట్టబయలు”
— English Translation:
The great secret is laid bare to all.Tom Noddy’s secret.

“Telugu Proverb:
అత్త కొట్టిన కుండ అడుగోటి కుండ, కోడలు కొట్టిన కుండ కొత్త కుండ”
— English Translation:
The pot broken by the mother-in-law was a cracked pot, the pot broken by the daughter-in-law was a new pot.

“Telugu Proverb:
అత్తగారి సాధింపు”
— English Translation:
The rancour of a mother-in-law.Among Hindus the husband’s mother, when living, rules the house. and to her the wife is subject.The husband's mother is the wife's devil. (Germain). ​

“Telugu Proverb:
అత్తచేశిన పనులకు ఆరళ్లు లేవు”
— English Translation:
There is no one to blame the mother-in-law.

“Telugu Proverb:
అత్తపేరు బెట్టి కూతురిని కుంపట్లో వేశినట్లు”
— English Translation:
Giving her child her mother-in-law’s name, she threw it into the fire.Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.

“Telugu Proverb:
అత్త చస్తే కోడలు యేడ్చినట్లు”
— English Translation:
Like the daughter-in-law lamenting the death of her mother in-law.Feigned sorrow.Crocodile tears.

“Telugu Proverb:
అత్తతో చెప్పి అషు అనిపించలేడుగాని, లంభించడానకు బ్రహ్మకొడుకు”
— English Translation:
He was not able to get the consent of my mother-in-law [ to give me my wife, ] but he is a very son of Brahma in reviling.

“Telugu Proverb:
అడియాశ పొడియాశ దుఃఖానకు కారణము”
— English Translation:
Vain hopes are a source of grief.Hope and expectation are a fool's income. (Danish) ​

“Telugu Proverb:
అడవి కాచిన వెన్నెల”
— English Translation:
Like moon-light in the jungle.Wasted on a spot where it is not appreciated.

“Telugu Proverb:
అగ్గువ అయితే అందరూ కొంటారు”
— English Translation:
When it is cheap, all will buy.