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— English Translation:
When sacred grain was given to a luckless fellow, he went away and ate it up (instead of placing it on his head).The term Avalakshana is applied to a man who bears unlucky marks on his person, or whose manners are inauspicious.

“Telugu Proverb:
అరవై వరహాలు యిచ్చినా అత్తవంటి బానిసె దొరకదు”
— English Translation:
Although you pay sixty Pagodas, you cannot obtain as good a handmaid as your mother-in-law.Said jokingly of a mother-in-law not allowed to have the management of the house, but kept in subjection to her daughter-in-law.

“Telugu Proverb:
అవసరగానికి ఆకులో పెట్టు, నాకు నేలను పెట్టు”
— English Translation:
Give the man who is in a hurry his food on a leaf, but give me mine on the floor.The food of Hindus is ordinarily served on a large leaf or several small leaves sewn together.Applied to a person wishing to have something done for himself in great haste, before others are attended to.

“Telugu Proverb:
అరిచే కుక్క కరవ నేరదు”
— English Translation:
A barking dog never bites.Great barkers are nae biters. (Scotch)A barking cur does not bite. (Italian)

“Telugu Proverb:
అవివేకితో స్నేహముకన్నా వివేకితో విరోధము మేలు”
— English Translation:
Enmity with a wise man is better than friendship with a fool.

“Telugu Proverb:
అరిటాకు వచ్చి ముంటిమీద పడ్డా అరిటాకుదే కష్టము, ముల్లు వచ్చి అరిటాకుమీద పడ్డా అరిటాకుదే కష్టము”
— English Translation:
The plantain leaf alike suffers, whether it falls on the thorn, or the thorn falls on it.

“Telugu Proverb:
అవ్వ వడికిన నూలు తాత మొలతాటికి సరి”
— English Translation:
The thread spun by the grand-mother is only sufiicient for the waist cord of the grand-father.Waste of that gained by another’s industry.

“Telugu Proverb:
అరిటిపండు వలిచి చేత వుంచినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like placing peeled plantain in one’s hand.Applied to any thing made perfectly easy.

“Telugu Proverb:
అవ్వను పట్టుకొని వసంతాలాడినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like playing games with your grand-mother.Lit. ""Throwing scarlet water over her,” a sport among young people at marriages, &c.Disrespectful and unseemly conduct towards elderly people.

“Telugu Proverb:
అరుంధతీ కనబడదు, అధ్వాన్నమూ కనపడదు, అరవై వరహాల అప్పు మాత్రము కనపడుతున్నది”
— English Translation:
I can’t see the star Arundhati, botheration take it! I can see nothing but a debt of sixty pagodas.Said by a man who had got over head and ears in debt for his marriage, when the priest pointed out the propitious star.

“Telugu Proverb:
అవ్వా కావలెను, బువ్వా కావలెను”
— English Translation:
I want grand-mother and I want food.Said by a child who did not wish to leave its grand-mother, but who had to do so to get its dinner.You cannot drink and whistle at the same time. (Danish)

“Telugu Proverb:
అమ్మ చెడ్డ చేటుకు ముసుకు వకటా”
— English Translation:
Is this miserable wretched woman to wear a veil ?

“Telugu Proverb:
అయ్యవారు అటికంత, అయ్యవారి పెండ్లాము పుటికంత”
— English Translation:
The Brahman is like a small pot, and his wife is like a basket.Spoken of things which do not match.

“Telugu Proverb:
అమ్మ తానూ పెట్టదు, తిరుచుకొనీ తిననివ్వదు”
— English Translation:
The mother neither gives food herself [to her child,] nor allows it to beg.

“Telugu Proverb:
అయ్య సవాశేరు, లింగము అరవీశెడు”
— English Translation:
The man [weighs] a seer and a quarter, the lingam [round his neck ] two and a half.

“Telugu Proverb:
అమ్మదగ్గిర కింద పడుకొన్నా వకటే, అబ్బదగ్గిర నేల పడుకొన్నా వకటే”
— English Translation:
It is all one whether [the child] sleep on the ground with its mother, or on the floor with its father.Equally bad.Where ball is the best, naught must be the choice.Whatever way you take there is a league of bad road. (Spanish)