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“ ഉക്കണ്ടം എനിക്കും തേങ്ങാ മുല്ലപ്പള്ളിക്കും”
English Translation:
The fibrous dry husk for me, and the rich coconut flesh for Mullappally. (A grossly rigged partnership where the vulnerable laborer gets the trash and the master takes the prize.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ ഭള്ളിൻ പെരുപ്പം, പുല്ലിന്റെ നാശം”
English Translation:
An abundance of loud bragging, and the ruination of the fodder. (All noise and no yield; blustering loudly while consuming and wasting valuable resources without accomplishing a thing.)

“ അമ്മയുറിമേലും പെങ്ങൾ കീഴിലും ഓൾ ഉരലിലും”
English Translation:
Mother on the high hanging shelf, sister below, and wife upon the mortar. (The delicate, often fraught domestic hierarchy and rivalries within a joint household.)

“ കുളത്തിൽകണ്ട മീൻ കറിക്കാകാ”
English Translation:
A fish seen swimming in the pond cannot be put into the curry. (Don’t count your chickens before they hatch; a distant prospect is not an asset until secured.)