ProverbPedia

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— English Translation:
The woman who couldn’t pound, put water into the condiments.She was too lazy to pound the condiments and therefore purposely spoilt them.

“Telugu Proverb:
తొంభై తొమ్మండ్రుగురు పోగయి తోలు చిరగ పొడిచినారు”
— English Translation:
Ninety-nine persons joined together [attacked a man, but only] succeeded in scratching his skin.A cowardly mob.26

“Telugu Proverb:
తొండకు వెలుగు సాక్షి”
— English Translation:
The bear is witness for the bloodsucker orThe hedge is witness for the bloodsucker.According to the first interpretation, a band of Mahomedan freebooters, when seeking on one occasion to discover treasure which had been buried by the inhabitants of a plundered village, having perceived first a chameleon nodding on certain spots and afterwards a bear sniffing in the same places, spent much labour in digging up the earth, but all in vain.—-The application is that natural habits are not to be taken notice of.According to others, the hedge where the chameleon lives should be questioned as to the latter’s veracity and character,—-the application being that the evidence of one man should be corroborated by that of another.Ask my chum if I am a thief. (Italian)

“Telugu Proverb:
తొండ ముదిరి వూసరవిల్లి అయినట్టు”
— English Translation:
The Tonda grew old, and hecarne an Usaravilli.Tonds is a bloodsucker (chameleon) which when old is called ûsaravilli.Vice growing with age.

“Telugu Proverb:
తొంగున్న సుంకరీ తలమూట దింపు అన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like a man waking up the sleeping custom house ofiicer to help him to put down his load.A “green trick.”

“Telugu Proverb:
తేళ్లల్లో కొండి, పాములలో పడిగ”
— English Translation:
The sting among the scorpions, the hood among the snakes.The worst among the bad.

“Telugu Proverb:
తేలుకు యెవరు అపకారము చేశినారు”
— English Translation:
Who did evil to the scorpion ?Thoroughly bad by nature injuring others without provocation.

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— English Translation:
When the scorpion was given power, it continued stinging until the morning.Applied to the abuse of authority by evil persons.

“Telugu Proverb:
తేలుకు పుట్టి చలిపురుగు అయినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Born to a scorpion and becoming a black ant.An unworthy scion of a. noble stock.

“Telugu Proverb:
తేర సొమ్ము బీర పీచు”
— English Translation:
Property got for nothing is Bira peel.Bira Kaya is the Luffa Foetida.

“Telugu Proverb:
తేర గుర్రము, తంగేడు బరికె”
— English Translation:
A horse for nothing, a Tangédu switch.Tangedu is the Cassia Auriculata.—“When you ride gratis you use your cudgel well.” (Brown's Tel. Dicty.)

“Telugu Proverb:
తేరగాడికి యేమిరా తెల్ల జొన్ననూగు”
— English Translation:
What is the roughness of the ear to the man who gets grain for nothing ?

“Telugu Proverb:
తేమానం తెగబారెడు”
— English Translation:
Your sluggishness is equal to a full fathom.The word Bâra properly signifies the length of the arms extended as when a man stretches himself.

“Telugu Proverb:
తెలిశే వరకు బ్రహ్మవిద్య, తెలిస్తే కూసువిద్య”
— English Translation:
Before you know it, it’s hard; when you know it, it’s easy.Every thing is easy when you know it.All things are diflicult before they are easy.All beginnings are hard, said the thief, and began by stealing an anvil. (Dutch)

“Telugu Proverb:
తెలివి తక్కువ, ఆకలి యెక్కువ”
— English Translation:
Little sense, great appetite.Eating one's senses away.

“Telugu Proverb:
తెలిశి తెలిశి బొందను పడ్డట్టు”
— English Translation:
Although he knew the pit well, he fell into it.