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Telugu Proverb:
ఎల్లవారమ్మల బ్రతుకు తెల్లవారితే తెలుస్తుంది
English Translation:
When it dawns, we shall know whose mother is alive.Said by a man to his wife, at whose instigation he had agreed that they should kill his mother. The mothers of the pair slept together and the wife's mother was murdered instead of the husband's, with the latter’s knowledge. The wife, having an inkling of the truth, endeavoured to persuade her husband to go and see which of the two they had spared, and he replied as above.

Telugu Proverb:
ఎలుకమీది కోపాన యింటికి చిచ్చు పెట్టుకొన్నట్టు
English Translation:
Like getting angry with a rat and setting fire to one’s house.Burn not your house to fright away the mice.

Telugu Proverb:
ఎలుక చావుకు పిల్లి మూర్ఛపోనా
English Translation:
Will the cat faint at the death of the rat?Indifference.

Telugu Proverb:
ఎలుకకు పిల్లి సాక్షి
English Translation:
The cat a witness in the rat’s case.Interested evidence.A fox should not be of the jury at a goose trial.

Telugu Proverb:
ఎలుకకు పిల్లి పొంచు వేశినట్టు
English Translation:
Like a cat crouching for a mouse.

Telugu Proverb:
ఎర్రను చూపి చేపను పట్టినట్టు
English Translation:
Like catching a fish with a worm.Fish follow the bait.10

Telugu Proverb:
ఎరుక పిడికెడు ధనము
English Translation:
Acquaintance is a handful of money.

Telugu Proverb:
ఎరువుల సొమ్ములు బరువుకు చేటు, తియ్యా పెట్టా తీపుల చేటు, వాటిలో వొకటి పోతే అప్పులచేటు
English Translation:
Borrowed ornaments cause inconvenience by their weight, pain by taking them off and putting them on, and debt if one of them is lost.He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

Telugu Proverb:
ఎరగని వూళ్లో యెమ్మెలు చేస్తే, యేకులు నీ మొగుడు వడుకుతాడా
English Translation:
If you give yourself airs in the village where you are a stranger, will your husband spin the cotton?

Telugu Proverb:
ఎప్పటి మేలు అప్పటికే
English Translation:
When a good deed [ is done,] then only [is it thought of].Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

Telugu Proverb:
ఎన్నో రణాలు కోశినానుగాని, నారణమంత తీపు లేదన్నట్టు
English Translation:
I have out many boils, but there was never such pain as in my own.Said by a Surgeon.To cut into another man’s ear is like cutting into a felt hat. (Danish)He laughs at scars who never felt a wound. (German)

Telugu Proverb:
ఎన్ని బూతులయినా పిడికెడు కొర్రలు కావు
English Translation:
Abuse me as much as you like, I've got my handful of grain out of you.Said by a beggar who had received alms and abuse together.When you have given me roast meal, you beat me with the spit.