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“ ഉലക്ക കൊണ്ടു താറുടുപ്പിച്ചു വിട്ടു”
English Translation:
Sent away made to wear a pounding pestle as a loincloth. (Thoroughly beaten, disgraced, and driven out in humiliation.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ താളിന്നുപ്പില്ല എന്നും താലിക്കു മുത്തില്ല എന്നും”
English Translation:
Complaining that the wild-leaf broth lacks salt, and that the marriage pendant lacks a pearl. (Chronic, petty fault-finding; whining about minor imperfections in humble food and sacred possessions alike.)

“ നോക്കിനടക്കുന്ന വള്ളി കാൽക്കുതടഞ്ഞു”
English Translation:
The very medicinal creeper one was searching for snagged against one’s own foot. (Serendipity; stumbling upon the very solution close at hand that was sought with great effort far away.)

“ കണ്ണിൽ കൊള്ളേണ്ടതു പുരികത്തേൽ കൊള്ളിച്ചു”
English Translation:
What was aimed for the eye landed on the eyebrow. (A close brush with tragedy; escaping with a minor scrape from what could have been a fatal blow.)