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“Telugu Proverb:
తాను పెంచిన పొట్టేలు తన చేతనే చంపబడ్డట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like the ram reared by one’s self being killed by one’s own hand.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాను పట్టిన కోడికి నాలుగు కాళ్లు”
— English Translation:
The hen he has caught has four legs.Exaggeration.All his geese are swans.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాను పట్టిన కుందేటికి మూడే కాళ్లు”
— English Translation:
The hare he caught had only three legs.Said of a pertinaceous person.

“Telugu Proverb:
తానుచేశిన పాపం తనువుతో, తల్లిచేశిన పాపం ధరణితో”
— English Translation:
The sin which a man commits goes with his body, the sin which his mother commits goes with the earth.This is interpreted to mean that if a man commits the sin of adultery, his crime may be expiated by a punishment equal to loss of life, but if a woman is guilty of the same offence, it clings to her descendants as long as the world endures.

“Telugu Proverb:
తానుండేది దాలిగుంట పట్టు, తలచేవి మేడా మాళిగెలు”
— English Translation:
He lives in a pit, but dreams of castles.His ideas are far above his position.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాదిన తవుడు లేదు, వారానికి వక పందిపిల్ల”
— English Translation:
He has not even bran to eat, but he wants a pig every week.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాతా సంక్రాంతి పట్టు పట్టు”
— English Translation:
O grandfather! Sankranti [has arrived] catch it! catch it!Sankranti is the transit of the sun from Sagittarius to Capricornus, when the Hindus celebrate the Pongal feast-This is chaff; old people observe the feast very scrupulously.

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— English Translation:
When the grandfather was asked Whether he would like to be married, he said, “Who will give me [a daughter,] my boy ?”

“Telugu Proverb:
తాతకు దగ్గ నేర్పవలెనా”
— English Translation:
Must you teach your grandfather how to cough ?

“Telugu Proverb:
తాతాచర్య్ల ముద్ర భుజము తప్పినా వీపు తప్పదు”
— English Translation:
If Tatachari’s brand misses your shoulder, you’ll catch it on the back.Tatachari was a wandering priest who branded his converts. If a man slipped away his shoulder, the seal caught him in the back.Not being able to evade something disagreeable.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాడు చాలకపోతే నుయ్యి పూడ్చుమన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like ordering the well to be filled up when the rope was found too short.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాటి చెట్లలో ప్రొద్దు గూకినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like the sun setting in a palmyra grove.Left in great diffiiculty.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాటాకు చప్పుళ్లకు కుందేళ్లు బెదురునా”
— English Translation:
Will hares be frightened by the rustling of palmyra leaves ?

“Telugu Proverb:
తాటి పట్టెకు యెదురు దేకినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like sliding on a palmyra beam, against the grain.The bark of the Palmyra ( See No. 290 ) is scaly and rugged.Injuring one's self by perverse conduct.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాడెక్కేవాణ్ని యెందాకా యెగసన తొయ్యను”
— English Translation:
How far can you help the man who is climbing up a palmyra tree ?A clumsy person must be helped to the end.

“Telugu Proverb:
తా చెడ్ద కోతి వనమెల్లా చెరిచినది”
— English Translation:
The monkey ruined himself, and all the forest after him.24