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“Telugu: పొయ్యి అరిస్తే బంధువులు, కుక్కలు కూస్తే కరువు”
— English Translation: If the fire place cries out (i. e. if the wood sings) relations [ are coming], if the dogs bark a famine [may be expected ].Let us have florins and we shall find cousins. (Italian)

“Telugu: పొదుగు కోశి పాలు తాగినట్టు”
— English Translation: Like cutting the udder, and drinking the milk.Ruining one’s self by ambition.

“Telugu: పొత్తుల మగడు పుచ్చి చచ్చెను”
— English Translation: The joint-husband was neglected and died.The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled. (French)

“Telugu: పొట్టి వాడికి పుట్టెడు బుద్ధులు”
— English Translation: A short man has a Putti of wisdom.

“Telugu: పొట్టి పోతరాజు కొలువు”
— English Translation: The service of Potti Pota Razu.A worrying fellow, of whom it is said that when his followers were behind him. he abused them for treating him as their (Pariah) guide; when they went before him, he accused them of acting as if they were his superiors; and when they travelled at each side of his palankin, he reprimanded them for daring to place themselves on an equality with himself.

“Telugu: పొట్టి గట్టి, పొడుగు లొడుగు”
— English Translation: Short and strong, tall and weak.A short man needs no stool to give a great lubber a box on the car. ​

“Telugu: పొట్టకరుకులు తిన్న వారికి వూచ బియ్యాలు లేవు”
— English Translation: There is no young corn for those who eat the cars.

“Telugu: పొట్టకు పుట్టెడు తిని అట్లకు ఆదివారము”
— English Translation: Having eaten a bushel of food, [he begs] for cakes as it’s Sunday.Sunday is a last day among some sects.Great greediness.

“Telugu: పొక్కటి రాళ్లకు పోట్లాడినట్టు”
— English Translation: Fighting for the fire-dogs.Pokkati Rallu are three clods of earth, or round stones used as a temporary fire place.Quarrelling for something of no value.

“Telugu: పైన పారే పక్షికింద పారే చీమ”
— English Translation: Like the ant that crawls below a bird flying above.It has no chance.

“Telugu: పొంగేదంతా పొయి పాలు”
— English Translation: All that boils over goes to the fire-place.Said of a silly man puffed up with conceit. whose vanity ruins him.

“Telugu: పేరు పెన్న మోశింది, వొళ్లు నేల మోశింది”
— English Translation: His name is borne by the Penna, and his body by the ground.Said of a wretched fellow with a great name.Fame is a magnifying glass. ​

“Telugu: పేరు పెనిమిటిది, అనుభవము మామగారిది”
— English Translation: The name is my husband’s, the suffering is my father-in law’s.Said by Sita to the Rishis’ wives when they condoled with her on her husband's sufferings. She knew that Rama's misfortune was not to be compared with that of her father-in-law Dasaratha who died of grief, cursed by the old hermit whose son he had accidentally killed.The name with one, the reality with another.

“Telugu: పేరు పెద్ద, వూరు దిబ్బ.",”
— ,English Translation: A great name but the village a heap [of ruins ].

“Telugu: పేరు పల్లకీ మీద, కాలు నేల మీద”
— English Translation: His name is in the palankin, and his legs on the groundi. e. be once rode, but now walks.

“Telugu: పేరు గంగానమ్మ, తాగబోతే నీళ్లు లేవు”
— English Translation: Your name is mother Ganga, but when I want a drink I find you have no water.Where you think Here are flitches of bacon there are not even hooks to hang them an. (Spanish)