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“Telugu Proverb:
నీరు నీరు వంకనే పారుతున్నది”
— English Translation:
Water runs towards water.Men haste to help those of their own caste, 8:0.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీ యెడమ చెయ్యి తియ్యి, నా పుర్ర చెయ్యి పెట్టుతాను”
— English Translation:
Take away your left hand, I will use my ‘sinister hand.(SeeNmflfiJA: broad as long.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీ ముష్టి లేకపోతే మానెగాని, నీ కుక్కను కట్టివెయ్యి”
— English Translation:
If there are no aims for me, never mind, but tie up your dog.Said by a beggar.

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— English Translation:
If you refuse to admit me to the entertainment given in your house for the poor, I will come to dinner in a rich dress.(Bee NM. I060, was.)Said by a poor woman to a rich mam-At many Brahminical ceremonies gifts and food are distributed to the wives of the Vaidikas while a superior entertainment is provided for those of the Laukikas of theNiyyogi class.Forcing oneself upon another.

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— English Translation:
Your marriage is rubbish, come to my marriage and hotel. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
నీ వత్తుపణం పాడుగానూ, నా వొరుపణం కుప్పలు కుప్పలు పెట్టు”
— English Translation:
Ruin take your ten fanams, put my one fanam in heaps.The words Paltu papam and Oru papam are Tamil.Said by a. Telugu man, ignorant of Tamil, who was owed one fanam, and owed ten.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీ నొసటనే ప్రొద్దు పొడిచినదా”
— English Translation:
Did the sun rise on your forehead only’!Are you the greatest in the world ?

“Telugu Proverb:
నీతిలేని వాడు కోతికన్న బీడు”
— English Translation:
An unjust man is worse than a monkey.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీతి కాని మాట రాతి వేటు”
— English Translation:
An unjust word is the throwing of a stone.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీకు వక దండము, నీ బువ్వకు వక దండము”
— English Translation:
A bow to you, a bow to your food.Said when oil‘ered bad food. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
నీకూ నాకూ కాదు, రోలెత్తి తలబ్రాలు పోయుమన్నట్టు.",”
— ,English Translation:
You and I don’t like each other; let us throw the mortar over each other's heads instead of rice.( For Rdlu see No- 1141-)Said by one of an ill matched pair at their marriage.- Talabrzilu is the rice poured over the head of the bride and bridegroom.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీకు రానిదీ, నేను విననిదీ, భూలోకములో లేనిదీ చెప్పుమన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Tell me something that you never knew, that I never heard, and that never existed in the world.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీకు రానిదీ నాకు విన సహించనిదీ పాడుమన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Sing something that you don’t know and that I cannot hear to hear.Asking something which is impossible.

“Telugu Proverb:
నీ అరచేతికి పండ్లు వస్తే చూతాము”
— English Translation:
When teeth grow in the palm of your hand, I’ll listen to you.

“Telugu Proverb:
నిష్ఠ నీళ్ల పాలు, మంత్రము మూలాల పాలు”
— English Translation:
His religious rites go to the water, and his Mantras to the Pariahs.Said of a great formnlist. Most of the religious rites of the Brahmans are performed with water. The sacred formulas (Mantras) ought according to the S'Astras to be pronounced in a low voice, inaudible to the people.

“Telugu Proverb:
నివురు కప్పిన నిప్పు సామిత”
— English Translation:
Fire covered with embers.Said of a very learned and humble man.‘ Dame donde ms sslente, que yo me hare donde me acueste. ​