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Telugu Proverb:
ఒరగబెట్టి తాగేది చెరిచెరా కంచరవాడు
English Translation:
The brazier has spoilt the dish which before I ate out of slantingly (on account of the hole in it).

Telugu Proverb:
ఒక్కొక్కరాయి తీస్తూ వుంటే, కొండయినా తరుగుతుంది
English Translation:
If you remove stone by stone, even a mountain will be levelled.You must pluck out the hairs of a horse's tail one by one. (Latin)Drop by drop the lake is drained.

Telugu Proverb:
ఒకరిని యిద్దరిని చంపితేనేగాని, వైద్యుడు కాడు
English Translation:
A man is no Doctor until he has killed one or two [patients.]Said to a bungling tyro.If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.

Telugu Proverb:
ఒక వూరికి వెయ్యి దోవలు
English Translation:
There are a thousand ways to a village.Every man in his way.There are more ways to the wood than one.

Telugu Proverb:
ఒక్క చెయ్యి తట్టితే, చప్పుడు అవునా
English Translation:
If you clap with one hand will there be any sound?Nothing can be done successfully by a single person.One man is no man. (Latin)Two heads are better than one.Hand washes hand, and finger finger. (Greek)

Telugu Proverb:
ఒకరి కలిమికి యేడిస్తే వక కన్ను పోయినది, తనలేమికి యేడిస్తే మరి వక కన్నూ పోయినది
English Translation:
By weeping at the good fortune of another he lost one eye, and by weeping at his own ill fortune he lost the other. ​

Telugu Proverb:
ఒకనాడు విందు, వకనాడు మందు
English Translation:
One day a feast, one day medicine.One day favor, one day disfavor.To-day in finary, to-morrow in filth. (German)

Telugu Proverb:
ఒక కలగంటే తెల్లవారుతున్నదా
English Translation:
Will the morning dawn after dreaming one dream?After one trouble, think not that you have passed through all.

Telugu Proverb:
ఒకనాడ ధారణ, వకనాడు పారణ",
,"English Translation: One day holding (fasting); one day breaking fast.A precarious subsistence.Change of fortune is the lot of life.To-day a king, to-morrow nothing. (French)

Telugu Proverb:
ఒకనాటి భాగవతముతో మూతి మీసాలన్నీ తెగకాలినవి
English Translation:
With one day’s acting, all his mustaches were burnt off.By standing too near the torches which are used to light up the figures of the performers, and on which powdered resin is thrown.Said of a clumsy novice.

Telugu Proverb:
ఒకటొకటిగా నూరా వకటే మాటు నూరా
English Translation:
A hundred one by one, or a hundred at once?Said in doubt of a person's liberality, as the “hundred” promised would probably turn out to mean only one.

Telugu Proverb:
ఒకటే దెబ్బ రెండే ముక్కలు
English Translation:
One blow and two pieces.To give a direct answer and settle a matter one way or the other.