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“ കോഴി ചിള്ളുംപോലെ തന്റെമുമ്പിൽമാത്രം”
English Translation:
Like a chicken scratching the soil only immediately in front of itself. (Parochial short-sightedness; caring only for one’s immediate selfish perimeter without regard for the wider world.)

“ മാപ്പിള തൊട്ടുതിന്നും മാക്രി കടിച്ചുചത്തും കേട്ടിട്ടുണ്ടോ”
English Translation:
Have you ever heard of a Muslim eating by merely touching, or anyone dying of a frog’s bite? (An absurd impossibility; raising groundless panic over non-existent threats or imagining impossible customs.)

“ ചൂട്ടുകണ്ടാ മുയലിനെപോലെ”
English Translation:
Like a hare blinded by a flaming torch. (Frozen in petrified terror; utterly paralyzed and helpless in the face of sudden discovery or exposure.)