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— English Translation:
When the crowbars were blown about by the wind, the leaf platter said “What is to become of me?”Pullaku is a cast away leaf-dish which has been once used.A mean person thinking of his own loss when his superiors are suffering.

“Telugu Proverb:
గడ్డ తిన్నా కంపే, పాయ తిన్నా కంపే”
— English Translation:
If you eat the root [of garlick] there is a smell, if you eat a clove of it there is a smellWhether you do a little evil or much, it is alike bad. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
గడ్డం వపనముచ్యతే”
— English Translation:
My beard will be fit for shaving.Said by a goat to a lion which he threatened to devour to fulfil a vow.

“Telugu Proverb:
గట్టు చేరిన వెనుక పుట్టివానితో పోట్లాడినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like fighting with the ferry-man after getting over the river.The river past, the saint forgotten. (Spanish)The peril past, the saint mocked. (Italian)

“Telugu Proverb:
గట్టి విడిచి పెట్టి పొట్టుకు పోరాడినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like leaving the grain, and fighting for the husk.

“Telugu Proverb:
గజ కచ్ఛప పోరు చందము”
— English Translation:
Like a fight between an elephant and a tortoise.

“Telugu Proverb:
గట్టివాడే గాని, కడుపు మాత్రము గుల్ల”
— English Translation:
He is a clever man no doubt, but his belly is hollow.An ironical phrase.The word rendered clever also means “solid.” The expression his belly is hollow is equivalent to “empty-headed.""

“Telugu Proverb:
గచ్చ పొద మీద యిసుక వేసి కయ్యానికి పిలుస్తున్నది”
— English Translation:
Throwing sand on a thorn bush and asking it to fight.Done by a Xantippe who could get no one to quarrel with.

“Telugu Proverb:
గంప శిడి కాదు, గాలపు శిడి”
— English Translation:
It is not the basket, but the hook.Galapu Sidi is the hook used in the swinging festival (Charak Puja) and Gampa Sidi is a basket sometimes used instead of the hook.Applied to a very difficult task.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోవెల పోయి కొమ్మ యెక్కినట్టు”
— English Translation:
When the cuckoo flew it only mounted a branch.

“Telugu Proverb:
గంతకు తగిన బొంత”
— English Translation:
Like packsaddle, like quilt.Like pot, like cover. (Dutch.)

“Telugu Proverb:
గంధపొడిలో బూరగ పట్టినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like blowing a horn into perfumed powder.Gandhapodi is thrown over one another by the relations of the bride and bridegroom at Hindu marriages.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఖాజీని ఫాజీగా ఫాజీని ఖాజీగా చేస్తాడు”
— English Translation:
He makes the great, mean; and the mean, great.The power of God.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోళ్ల బేరానకు వెళ్లి కోటలో కబుర్లు అడిగినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Going to sell fowls and asking the news in the fort.A meddling rascal.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోళ్లకు రెక్కలూ తాళ్లకు చండ్లూ వున్నట్టు,”
— ,"English Translation:
Like the wings of fowls, and the flower-stalks of palmyra trees.Domestic fowls make no use of their wings, and the flower-stalk (spadix) of the palmyra bears no fruit.Useless possessions.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోలలేని పెట్టు, తాడులేని కట్టు”
— English Translation:
A blow without a rod, a bond without a rope.A sudden and unaccountable calamity.