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“ വിരൽ കൊടുത്താൽ കൈ വിഴുങ്ങും”
English Translation:
Offer a finger, and they will swallow the whole arm. (Give an inch and they will take a mile; opportunistic parasites exploit small concessions into total usurpation.)

“ തേങ്ങാ ചോരുന്നതു കാണുകയില്ല, എള്ളു ചോരുന്നതുകാണും”
English Translation:
Blind to coconuts rolling away, yet keenly spotting sesame seeds leaking through. (Penny-wise and pound-foolish; obsessing over microscopic trivia while oblivious to colossal, draining losses.)

“ തടുപ്പാൻ ശക്തിയുള്ള കാലത്തു അറിവില്ല”
English Translation:
In the years when one has the physical strength to resist, one lacks the wisdom to know how. (Youth is wasted on the young; vigor comes in youth when discernment is missing, and wisdom arrives only when physical strength has faded.)