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“ ഞണ്ടു, മണ്ഡലി, കായൽ, വാഴ, കുടപ്പന, പെറ്റാൽ ശേഷിക്കയില്ല”
English Translation:
The crab, the viper, the reed, the plantain tree, and the talipot palm: none survives the act of bearing fruit or offspring. (Certain creations and enterprises exhaust and destroy their source in the very process of coming to fruition.)

“ ഉറുപ്പയിൽ കള്ളൻ കയറി”
English Translation:
A thief broke into an empty granary. (Expending great stealth and effort to breach a place that holds nothing of value.)

“ കള്ളനെ കക്കുക”
English Translation:
Robbing the thief himself. (Diamond cut diamond; outwitting a swindler at his own game.)