ProverbPedia

Telugu Proverb:
చికిలింత ఐశ్వర్యం
English Translation:
Grass-like prosperity.(For Chikilinta see chigirinta in No. 872.)

Telugu Proverb:
చింతా చిగిరింత యేపు
English Translation:
The growth of the tamarind and the burgrass.The tamarind grows slowly, the Chigirinta (Panicum Verticillatum) shoots up very rapidly and soon withers.Slow and sure.

Telugu Proverb:
చింత చచ్చినా, చింత పులుపు చావదు
English Translation:
The tamarind may be dried, but it loses not its acidity.Retaining vigour of mind though weakened in body.

Telugu Proverb:
చావు తప్పి కన్ను లొట్టపోయినట్టు
English Translation:
Escaping death, but losing an eye.

Telugu Proverb:
చావుకు పెట్టితే గాని, లంఖణాలకు తెగదు.",
,English Translation: He won’t fast unless told that his life is in danger.

Telugu Proverb:
చావుకు మళ్లీ చావు వస్తుందా
English Translation:
Does death come more than once ?

Telugu Proverb:
చావా చావడు, మంచమూ వదలడు.",
,English Translation: He would neither die not give up his bed.

Telugu Proverb:
చావా చావనివ్వడు, బ్రతకా బ్రతకనివ్వడు.",
,English Translation: He will neither allow me to die nor to live.Perpetual worrying.

Telugu Proverb:
చావటి ముందరి కొంప కదపా పుల్లలకు సరి
English Translation:
A thatched but opposite a Court-house, is used up for bonds.Bonds were formerly always written on Palmyra leaves, such as are used for thatching.

Telugu Proverb:
చాలీ చాలనందుకు చాకింట గుడ్డలు శానా వున్నవి
English Translation:
If you have not quite clothes enough, there are plenty at the washennan’s.Alluding to the habit which obtains among the natives of India of hiring other people’s clothes from the washermen.

Telugu Proverb:
చాప చిరిగితే చదరంత అయినా వుండకపోతున్నదా
English Translation:
Although the mat be torn, will there not be found in it as much as a school boy’s mat ?Cadaru is a very small square mat.Every thing can be brought to some account.Nothing so bad as not to be good for something.

Telugu Proverb:
చాకలవాని భార్యకు మంగలవాడు విడాకు యిచ్చినట్టు
English Translation:
Like the barber’s giving a written divorcement to the washerwoman’s wife.b