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Telugu Proverb:
తానూ వక మనిషేనా తవుడూ వక రొట్టేనా
English Translation:
He calls himself a man, and the bran he eats, bread.A vulgar person taking airs.

Telugu Proverb:
తానూ గాక పిల్లి కూడానా
English Translation:
Is a cat to come as well as himself ?Said when a man who is already a burden upon others, brings some one else with him. Amongst the Hindus a cat is an evil omen.

Telugu Proverb:
తాను మింగేది తనను మింగేది చూచుకోవలశినది
English Translation:
You should look what you can swallow, and what can swallow you.Look before you leap.

Telugu Proverb:
తానుబోను దోవలేదు డోలు వకటి మెడను
English Translation:
When there is no room for him to pass himself, he hangs a, big drum round his neck.Said of a man who tries to provide for another, when he has difficulty in managing for himself.

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.

Telugu Proverb:
తాతా పెండ్లాడుతావా అంటే, నాకెవడిస్తాడురా అబ్బా అబ్బానడట
English Translation:
When the grandfather was asked Whether he would like to be married, he said, “Who will give me [a daughter,] my boy ?”