ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
కోతికి జల్తారు కుళ్లాయి పెట్టినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like putting a gold-laced cap on a monkey’s head.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోడి పోయి కొమ్మ యెక్కినట్టు”
— English Translation:
When the fowl flew, it only mounted a branch.17

“Telugu Proverb:
కోతికి కొబ్బరికాయ దొరికినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like a monkey with a cocoanut.Cannot use it, but won't give it up.Like the dog in the manger, he will neither do nor let do.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోతికి అద్దము చూపినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like showing a looking glass to a monkey.Persistently offering that which is disliked.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోడిగుడ్డు పగలగొట్ట గుండ్రాయి కావలెనా”
— English Translation:
Do you want a stone roller to break an egg with?

“Telugu Proverb:
కోడిపిల్లమీద పందిపిల్ల బలాదూరు”
— English Translation:
Sacrificing a pig to save a chicken.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోడికి కులాసం లేదు, కోమటికి విశ్వాసం ఉంది.",”
— ,English Translation:
A fowl has no happiness and a Komati has feeling.The Komatis are a class of shopkeepers.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోడలు గృహప్రవేశము, అత్త గంగాప్రవేశము.",”
— ,English Translation:
The daughter-in-law enters the house (as a bride) and the mother-in law enters the Ganges (dies).Death at the tae door an’ heirship at the tither. (Scotch.)

“Telugu Proverb:
కోడలు కొడుకును కంటానంటే, వద్దనే అత్తగారు ఉన్నదా”
— English Translation:
When a daughter-in-law says that she is about to bring forth a son, is there any mother-in-law who says “Don’t”? i.e. wish the child to be a daughter.Will any one refuse to receive a benefit ?

“Telugu Proverb:
కొసరిన కూరలోగాని పసలేదు”
— English Translation:
There is no taste in the greens unless some are received over.Said by Hindu women, who are never satisfied unless they obtain something over and above their money’s worth.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోడలికి బుద్ధి చెప్పి అత్త రంకుపోయినది”
— English Translation:
The mother-in-law gave good counsel to her daughter-in-law and went astray herself.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోటి విద్యలూ కూటి కొరకే”
— English Translation:
Ten million arts are only for [getting] food.All professions are only so many means of livelihood.

“Telugu Proverb:
కొల్లు ములిగిన కొన్నాళ్లకు కోనా ములిగినది,”
— ,"English Translation:
Soon after the destruction of Kollu by a flood, Kona also was swept away.Kollu and Kona are the names of two villages on either side of a river. The calamity which happened to one was a source of rejoicing to the other, which soon however suffered the same fate.Tauntingly used by a person towards those who took delight in his misfortune but have now been overtaken by a calamity themselves.

“Telugu Proverb:
కొల్లేట్లో పండే పంటేగాని, చచ్చే దున్నపోతులకు లెక్క లేదు",”
— ,"English Translation:
[They look at] the crops which grow in Kolléru, but there is no account of the buffaloes which die there.Counting profit, but not loss.

“Telugu Proverb:
కొలిచేవాడూ గుడ్డి, కొలిపించుకొనేవాడూ గుడ్డి”
— English Translation:
The man who measures [the grain] is blind, and the man who has had it measured is blind also (i.e., the buyer and the seller.)Defects on both sides.

“Telugu Proverb:
కొర్రకు నక్కకొర్ర”
— English Translation:
Nakkakorra to KorraNakkakorra is the Panicum Helvolum, an inferior grain produced in the hill countries. Korra is the Setaria Italica, a ""farinaceous grain of the millet kind"" (Shakespear’s Hind. Diety. under lllj).Thwarting the evil designs of a bad man by means of a worse.Devils must be driven out with devils. (German.)