ProverbPedia

“Telugu:
బొట్నవేలు సున్నమయితే బోర్ల పడుతాడు”
English Translation:
When he has chunam on his thumb, he is upset with conceit.Having “”chunam on the thumb”” means ability to afford to eat a little betel nut. Chunam is rubbed on the leaf with the thumb.

“Telugu:
బిడ్డ యెదిగితే కుండ యెదుగును”
English Translation:
As the child grows, the pot grows.i.e. It eats more.A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.

“Telugu:
బోగం వలపూ బొగ్గు తెలుపూ లేదు”
English Translation:
There is no love in harlots or whiteness in coals.

“Telugu:
బిడ్డ లేని ముద్దు, వాన లేని వరద”
English Translation:
Fondling without a child, a flood without rain.

“Telugu:
బోడి తలకు బొడ్డు మల్లెలు ముడిచినట్టు”
English Translation:
Like decorating a bald man with a jasmine garland.Boddu Malle is the Jasminum Sambac.Something being thrown away upon a person.

“Telugu:
బీద వాడు బిచ్చపు వాడికీ లోకువ”
English Translation:
A poor man is even lower than a beggar.

“Telugu:
బోడెద్దుకు పోటు మప్పడము”
English Translation:
Training a hornless bullock to gore.Leading the innocent to vice. ​

“Telugu:
బురద గుంటలో పంది సామిత”
English Translation:
Like a pig in the mire.

“Telugu:
బోడి నెత్తిన టెంకాయ కొట్టినట్టు”
English Translation:
Like beating a shaven head with a cocoanutAs used to be done to a Sannyâsi ( religious mendicant) by his disciples when he was about to die.

“Telugu:
బురదబుక్కడము వంటివాడు”
English Translation:
A man like an eel.Sloth. Apathy.

“Telugu:
బ్రతకని బిడ్డ తెగబారెడు”
English Translation:
The dead infant is always a fine child.Thought more of when dead than when living.For folks fare well, and fair children die.

“Telugu:
బుర్రకు వక గుణము, జిహ్వకు వక రుచి”
English Translation:
Every head has its idiosyncrasy, and every tongue its taste.All tastes are tastes. (Italian)There is no disputing of tastes, appetites, and fancies. ​

“Telugu:
బ్రతికి వుంటే, బలుసుకూర తిని వుండ వచ్చును”
English Translation:
If I live, I can exist on Balusukura.Balurukura is the Canthium Parviflorum.Preferring hardship to oppression. “Submission to any necessity however grievous.”” (Elliot. )What can’t be cured must be endured.

“Telugu:
బూడిదలో చేశిన హోమము”
English Translation:
Like pouring out an offering on ashes.A useless or unprofitable work.

“Telugu:
బ్రతికి వుండగా పాలు లేదు గాని, చచ్చిన వెనక గంగి గోవును దానము చేస్తానన్నట్టు”
English Translation:
While he lived no milk was given to him, but he was promised that a sacred cow would be presented [on his account] to a Brahman, after his death.

“Telugu:
బూడిద గుంటలో కుక్క సామిత”
English Translation:
Like a dog lying in the warm ashes.Keeping quiet for a while, but soon returning to mischief.