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“ ഓടുന്നതിന്റെ കുട്ടി പറക്കും”
English Translation:
The offspring of a running beast will take to the air. (The younger generation often outdoes the older in wildness, agility, or cunning.)

— Malayalam

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“ താന്താൻ കഴിച്ചതിൽ താന്താ”
English Translation:
Each must lie in the pit they dug for themselves. (As you make your bed, so you must lie on it; everyone must endure the outcomes of their own choices.)

“ കുത്തുകൊള്ളുംപുറം കുത്തുകൊള്ളാഞ്ഞാൽ പിത്തംകേറി ചത്തുപോകും”
English Translation:
If the back accustomed to beatings goes unstruck, it will die of a bilious fit. (Habituated to rough mistreatment and chronic dysfunction, gentle treatment feels entirely unnatural.)

“ പണ്ടെദുർബല, പിന്നെയൊ ഗർഭിണി, പോരാഞ്ഞിട്ടു ബാധയുടെ ഒരുപദ്രവവും”
English Translation:
Feeble to begin with, then pregnant, and on top of that, tormented by an evil spirit. (A compounding series of afflictions piling onto an already frail and overburdened individual.)