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“ എറുംപുര കല്ലുംതേയും”
English Translation:
With the steady crawling of ants, even granite stone wears away. (Steady, unrelenting persistence overcomes the most unyielding barriers.)

— Malayalam

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“ ഇളക്കുമ്പോൾ കടിക്കും”
English Translation:
It bites the moment it is stirred. (Let sleeping dogs lie; certain dangerous people or problems remain harmless only until provoked.)

“ കള്ളൻ കട്ടതിനു കോമട്ടിയെ കഴുവേറ്റി”
English Translation:
For a crime committed by a thief, the merchant was impaled on the stake. (Arbitrary, incompetent authority punishing an innocent bystander just to show quick results.)

“ ആറുകർണ്ണങ്ങൾ പുക്കാൽ മന്ത്രവും ഭേദിച്ചീടും”
English Translation:
Once it enters six ears, even a sacred confidential incantation is broken. (A secret shared among three people will inevitably leak to the world.)