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“ ചുട്ടകൈ കടിക്കും”
English Translation:
The hand that provided warmth and aid gets bitten. (Cruel ingratitude; returning injury and spite to the very benefactor who nurtured and helped you.)

“ തപ്പിക്കണ്ടു വീശാറുണ്ടോ”
English Translation:
Does anyone cast a fishing net only after groping around by hand to confirm the fish? (Overthinking and excessive caution paralyze action; if you wait for absolute certainty, the fleeting opportunity escapes.)

“ മാവുതിന്നാൽ പണിയാരമില്ല, പെണ്ടാട്ടിയെ തിന്നാൽ മക്കളില്ല”
English Translation:
If you eat up the raw batter there will be no sweet cakes, and if you destroy your wife there will be no children. (Squandering your seed capital or mistreating the core source of future growth deprives you of all future harvest; do not ruin the foundation of tomorrow’s prosperity.)