ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
అయ్య వాతబెట్టనూ బర్రె బ్రతకనా”
— English Translation:
When his lordship brands the buffalo, will she get over it ?Said of a clumsy fellow, who makes a mess of every thing.I meant to cross myself and put out one of my eyes. (Portuguese.)

“Telugu Proverb:
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— English Translation:
అమ్మ గృహప్రవేశము, అయ్య శ్మశానప్రవేశము.The bride enters her husband’s house, and the bridegroom enters the tomb.Regarding Grihapravésa (""house-entering"") see No. 803.Applied to a great calamity happening when most unlooked for. Also to a luckless woman.After a dream of a wedding comes a corpse.

“Telugu Proverb:
అయ్యవారిని చెయ్యబోతే కోతి అయినది”
— English Translation:
His attempt to make [an image of] Ganésa ended in [the moulding of] a monkey.Mud images of Ganésa are made and worshipped on the 4th day of the light fortnight in the month Bhadrapada (August-September ).A ridiculous failure.

“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)

“Telugu Proverb:
అరచేత వెన్నపెట్టుకొని నేతికి యేడ్చినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like a man with butter in the palm of his hand, calling out for ghi.

“Telugu Proverb:
అమ్మ పెట్టేవి నాలుగూ అప్పుడే పెట్టితే చెయ్యనా”
— English Translation:
If you had beaten me as my mother used to do, would I not have done [the work]?Said by a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law.Applied to a. person with whom mild measures are of no avail, with whomThere is no argument like that of the stick. (Spanish)

“Telugu Proverb:
అరచేతి రేగుబంటికి అద్దము కావలెనా”
— English Translation:
Do you require a glass to look at a berry in the palm of your hand ?The berry spoken of is the fruit of the Zizyphns Jujuba.As clear as crystal.As plain as a pike-staff.

“Telugu Proverb:
అమ్మబోతే అడివి, కొనబోతే కొరివి”
— English Translation:
When he went to sell, his bargains were [as ruinous as] a jungle; when he went to buy [his purchases were as bad as] firebrands.Losing on both sides.Buy and sell and live by the loss.

“Telugu Proverb:
అరచేతిలో వుప్పు పెట్టితే ఆరునెలలు తలుచుకోవలెను”
— English Translation:
If he puts a little salt in the palm of your hand, you should think of it for six months.The duty of gratitude.

“Telugu Proverb:
అయితంపూడి వుద్యోగము అయితే గియితే, ఆరావుల పాడిచేస్తే గీస్తే, పెరుగూ పాలూ మీవారికి పోస్తావా మావారికి పోస్తావా”
— English Translation:
“Were I to be employed in Aithampfidi, and possess six milch cows, would you supply milk and curds to your relations or to mine ?""The story is, that the wife being asked this foolish question by her husband answered ""to my people,"" on which she was beaten.

“Telugu Proverb:
అరచేతిలో వైకుంఠము చూపుతాడు”
— English Translation:
He offers heaven in the palm of his hand.Deceiving by false hopes.

“Telugu Proverb:
అయితే అతడి ఆలాయె, కాకపోతే దాసురాలాయె”
— English Translation:
“If We succeed, she shall be his wife; if not, she shall be a recluse.”Said by the parents of a girl, who had set their hearts upon getting her married to a certain man.Either Caesar or nobody. (latin)