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“Telugu Proverb:
నక్క జిత్తులన్నీ నావద్ద వుండగా నన్ను మోసము చేశెనే తాబేటి బుర్ర”
— English Translation:
Although I was as cunning as a fox, I was deceived by a tortoise.A man sat on the back of a tortoise not knowing what it was, and sank with it.

“Telugu Proverb:
నమ్మి నానబోసితే, పులిసి బుర్రటలాడెను”
— English Translation:
I trusted it and put it to soak, it became acid and began toferment. Misplaced confidence.

“Telugu Proverb:
నక్కను చూచిన వాడెల్లా వేటకాడే”
— English Translation:
Every one who sees a jackal hunts it.

“Telugu Proverb:
నరము లేని నాలుక నాలుగు విధాలు”
— English Translation:
The tongue without nerves goes all ways.When the conscience is dead, moral restraint disappears.

“Telugu Proverb:
నక్క పోయిన వెనక బొక్క కొట్టుకొన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
After the jackal had departed, the hole lamented and wept.Great sorrow in a household.

“Telugu Proverb:
నరుని కంట నల్లరాయి పగులును”
— English Translation:
By the look of a man’s eye, granite will be broken.The power of an evil eye. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
నక్క యెక్కడ, దేవలోకమెక్కడ.",”
— ,English Translation:
Where is the j ackal '! where is heaven’!What prospect has the jackal of entering heaven 5’A hopeless idea.

“Telugu Proverb:
నక్క రేలకాయ సామ్యము”
— English Translation:
Like the effect of the Cassia fruit on a jackal.Rfila is the Cassia (Cathartocarpus) Fistula.

“Telugu Proverb:
దొరికిన సొమ్ముకు దొంగ అవుతాడా”
— English Translation:
Does a man become a thief by finding property ?

“Telugu Proverb:
ధాష్టీకానికి ధర్మము లేదు, గుడ్డి కంటికి చూపు లేదు”
— English Translation:
There is no justice in oppression, and no sight in ablind eye.

“Telugu Proverb:
దోవలో కూర్చుడి దొబ్బులు తిన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Sitting in the middle of the road and being abused by every passer by.

“Telugu Proverb:
ద్వారపూడి పచ్చెపువాడి వత్తు”
— English Translation:
Like a pickpocket of Dvarapudi.Dvarapudi is a notorious village in the Godavery District.

“Telugu Proverb:
ధనియాల జాతి.The coriander-seed caste.Said of Komatis (No. 712 ) because treating a Komati roughly is the only way of dealing with him, as rubbing the coriander-seed before it is sown is the only way of making it sprout.",”
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“Telugu Proverb:
దొడ్డెడు గొడ్లను దొంగలు తోలుకొని పోతే, గొడ్డు గేదె శ్రీ మహాలక్ష్మి అయినది”
— English Translation:
After the whole of the cattle had been stolen from the shed, the barren buflalo became as valuable as Maha Lakshmi (the goddess of fortune).

“Telugu Proverb:
దొరలు యిచ్చిన పాలుకన్నా ధరణి యిచ్చిన పాలు మేలు”
— English Translation:
The share given by the earth is better than that given by the government.Free lands are better when fertile, than shares of grain allotted by government.

“Telugu Proverb:
దొరికిన సొమ్ముకు దొంగ అవుతాడా”
— English Translation:
Does a man become a thief by finding property ?