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“Telugu Proverb:
తంగేడు పూచినట్టు.As the ,”
— ,English Translation:
Tangédu blossoms.Tangedu is the Cassia Auriculata.

“Telugu Proverb:
డొంకలో షరాఫు వున్నాడు, నాణెము చూపుకో వచ్చును”
— English Translation:
The banker is in the thicket, you may get him to test the coin.

“Telugu Proverb:
తంటల మారి గుర్రముకు తాటిపట్టె గొరపం”
— English Translation:
A vicious horse requires a comb made of Palmyra wood.Full of splinters.

“Telugu Proverb:
డబ్బులేని వానికి బోగముది తల్లి వరస”
— English Translation:
A harlot is as a mother to a man without money.Something beyond the reach of a man’s means.

“Telugu Proverb:
డబ్బు యివ్వనివాడు ముందు పడవ యెక్కినట్టు”
— English Translation:
The man that did not pay his fare, got into the boat first.

“Telugu Proverb:
జ్ఞాతిగుర్రు అరిటికర్రు వదలవు”
— English Translation:
The stain of plantain [can never be effaced], the grumbling of cousins never ceases.

“Telugu Proverb:
జోగీ జోగీ రాచుకొంటే బూడిదె రాలినది”
— English Translation:
When two Jogis jostled against each other ashes fell [from their bodies].Nothing is to be got out of the quarrels of the poor.

“Telugu Proverb:
జీవన్మృతుడు, మృత జీవుడు”
— English Translation:
Dead while living, living while deadA bad man is, in the estimate of his fellow men, as little valued as if he were dead, but the good man's deeds live after he himself has left the world.“The memory of the just is blessed."" Proverbs x. 7.

“Telugu Proverb:
జీతములేని నవకరు, కోపములేని దొర",”
— ,English Translation:
[Where] the servant [is] without pay the master [must be] without anger

“Telugu Proverb:
జీతమూ బత్యమూ లేకుండా మేకలు కాస్తానన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
“I’ll watch the sheep without wages,” said the wolf.A man offering to serve without pay for the sake of dishonest gains.

“Telugu Proverb:
జీతగాణ్ని తెచ్చుకొంటే, యింటికి ఖావందు అయినాడు”
— English Translation:
The hireling has become the master of the house.Applied to a forward person, who does not know his place.

“Telugu Proverb:
జానెడు యింట్లో మూరెడు కర్ర”
— English Translation:
A staff a cubic long in a house a span wide;An impossibility.

“Telugu Proverb:
జయము వుండే వరకు భయము లేదు”
— English Translation:
As long as fortune favours you, you have nothing to fear.

“Telugu Proverb:
జాతికొద్దీ బుద్ధి, కులముకొద్దీ ఆచారము”
— English Translation:
Wisdom according to your birth, religious observances according to your caste.

“Telugu Proverb:
జడ్డిగములో మిడతపోటు”
— English Translation:
A grasshopper eating the seed in the drilling machine.Premature ruin.

“Telugu Proverb:
జగమెరిగిన బ్రాహ్మణునికి జంధ్యమెందుకు”
— English Translation:
What is the use of the sacred thread to a well known Brahman ?That which is well known need not be published.