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“ 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.)

— Malayalam

Related Mantras

“ ഇളനാ കുടിയറികയില്ല, ഇളയപോത്തു വെട്ടറികയില്ല”
English Translation:
A young tongue knows no restraint in drinking; an untrained young bull knows not how to cut a straight furrow. (Inexperience lacks both self-control and technical mastery.)

“ സങ്കടകോഴിക്കു പണമൊന്നു”
English Translation:
For a chicken sold in distress, a single copper coin. (Exploiting another’s desperation to purchase valuable assets for a pittance; distress sales yield bottom prices.)

“ കുന്തം കൊടുക്കയുമില്ല താനൊട്ട്‌ കുത്തുകയുമില്ല”
English Translation:
Will neither hand over the spear nor make the strike himself. (A dog in the manger; refusing to do the necessary work while preventing others from doing it.)