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“ കരിക്കട്ട കഴുകുന്തോറും കറുക്കും”
English Translation:
The more you wash a lump of charcoal, the blacker it appears. (Inherent defects cannot be cleansed; attempting to whitewash a fundamentally corrupt character only makes its foulness clearer.)

“ മണ്ണുതിന്നുന്ന മണ്ഡലിയെപോലെ”
English Translation:
Like a Russell’s viper eating dirt. (A dangerous predator lurking in squalor and biding its time without losing a single drop of its lethal venom.)

“ പൊണ്ണക്കാര്യത്തിന്റെ അങ്ങെ അറ്റം കൂറപ്പെനിന്റെ ഇങ്ങെ അറ്റം”
English Translation:
The far end of an inflated matter is just the near end of a clothes louse. (A puffed-up affair accompanied by grand drama turns out to be utterly trivial and petty upon close inspection.)