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“Malayalam Proverb:
ഏറെ പഠിത്വമുള്ള ഗൌളിക്കു കാടിക്കലത്തിൽ അപായം”
— English Translation:
The lizard renowned for its predictive wisdom meets its doom inside a pot of fermented wash. (Overly clever know-it-alls who forecast the future often perish through basic carelessness.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ഏടെക്കും മോഴെക്കും ചുങ്കംഇല്ല”
— English Translation:
There is no toll or tax on a useless, hornless bullock. (Nobody bothers to hold accountable or levy demands on what is fundamentally worthless.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
ഏറെപറയുന്നവന്റെവായിൽരണ്ടുപണം (ഒരുപണംപിഴ)”
— English Translation:
For the mouth that talks too much, a fine of two coins. (Those who speak incessantly will eventually blabber their way into trouble and pay a heavy penalty.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എളിയൊരെകണ്ടാൽ എള്ളുംതുള്ളും”
— English Translation:
At the sight of the weak, even a sesame seed leaps with arrogance. (Bullies and cowards act haughty only when confronting those who cannot fight back.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എലിപ്പുലയാട്ടിനു മലപ്പലയാട്ടു”
— English Translation:
For the petty curse of a mouse, an avalanche of abuse as massive as a mountain. (A wildly disproportionate overreaction to a negligible slight.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എളുപ്പവഴിക്കു പകൽപോരാ”
— English Translation:
A whole day is not enough to get through a shortcut. (Shortcuts often turn out to be the longest, most convoluted detours.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എലിയുടെ കണ്ണുനിറഞ്ഞാലും പൂച്ച കടിവിടുകയില്ല”
— English Translation:
Even if the rat's eyes brim with tears, the cat will never loosen its jaws. (A ruthless predator has no capacity for pity.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എള്ളിലും ചൊള്ളിലും ചൊള്ളായാലൊ”
— English Translation:
What if every grain and every measure is infected with fault and bickering? (When petty squabbling and flaws taint every single detail, nothing fruitful can emerge.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എലിയെ തോല്പിച്ചു ഇല്ലംചുട്ടാൽ എലി ചാടിയുംപോം ഇല്ലം വെന്തുംപോം”
— English Translation:
If you set fire to the mansion to defeat a rat, the rat will scurry away and your home will be ashes. (Burning down the house to kill a pest; self-destructive remedies that leave the problem unsolved.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എള്ളിലെവാരം മുതിരയിൽതീരും”
— English Translation:
The profit gained on sesame is lost on horse gram. (What is gained in one petty venture is swallowed by loss in another; penny-wise and pound-foolish.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എല്ലാ ഗർഭവും പെറ്റു ഇനി കടിഞ്ഞൂൽ ഗർഭമെ പെറേണ്ടു”
— English Translation:
Delivered every single child and now has only the firstborn left to deliver. (Claiming great experience while reversing basic logic and chronology.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എള്ളിൽവീണ ഒച്ചുപോലെ”
— English Translation:
Like a snail that has fallen into a heap of sesame seeds. (Paralyzed and thoroughly entangled, unable to move without getting bogged down further.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എല്ലാപക്ഷിക്കും ചിലെക്കാം, വശകൻ പക്ഷിക്കു ചിലെക്കാൻ മേലാ”
— English Translation:
Any wild bird can chirp, but the caged decoy bird cannot utter a sound. (Those who are captive or subservient are stripped of the freedom to speak.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എള്ളു ചോരുന്നതു കാണും, തേങ്ങാചോരുന്നതറികയില്ല”
— English Translation:
Spotting a sesame seed slipping through, yet blind to whole coconuts falling away. (Straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel; fretting over petty leaks while oblivious to colossal losses.)

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— English Translation:
Every goddess has already appeared in trance; only the petty Muppeerichi spirit is left to manifest. (Everyone of consequence has already spoken; only an insignificant straggler is left making noise.)

“Malayalam Proverb:
എള്ളൊളംതിന്നാൽ എള്ളൊളംനിറയും”
— English Translation:
If you eat as tiny as a sesame seed, you will be filled only by that much. (Meager effort yields an equally negligible return; you get out only what you put in.)