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“Telugu Proverb:
తాటి పట్టెకు యెదురు దేకినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like sliding on a palmyra beam, against the grain.The bark of the Palmyra ( See No. 290 ) is scaly and rugged.Injuring one's self by perverse conduct.

“Telugu Proverb:
తానూ గాక పిల్లి కూడానా”
— English Translation:
Is a cat to come as well as himself ?Said when a man who is already a burden upon others, brings some one else with him. Amongst the Hindus a cat is an evil omen.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాటాకు చప్పుళ్లకు కుందేళ్లు బెదురునా”
— English Translation:
Will hares be frightened by the rustling of palmyra leaves ?

“Telugu Proverb:
తానూ వక మనిషేనా తవుడూ వక రొట్టేనా”
— English Translation:
He calls himself a man, and the bran he eats, bread.A vulgar person taking airs.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాటి చెట్లలో ప్రొద్దు గూకినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like the sun setting in a palmyra grove.Left in great diffiiculty.

“Telugu Proverb:
తానే తుమ్మి తానే శతాయుస్సు అనుకొన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
After sneezing he blessed himself saying “May you live a hundred years!”A joke.The blessing ought to come from another.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాడు చాలకపోతే నుయ్యి పూడ్చుమన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like ordering the well to be filled up when the rope was found too short.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాపుల గొడ్డుకు రోలడ్డము”
— English Translation:
A mortar is a [sure] check to a runaway cow.When tied to its neck.Applied to measures which to check the progress of crime.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాతాచర్య్ల ముద్ర భుజము తప్పినా వీపు తప్పదు”
— English Translation:
If Tatachari’s brand misses your shoulder, you’ll catch it on the back.Tatachari was a wandering priest who branded his converts. If a man slipped away his shoulder, the seal caught him in the back.Not being able to evade something disagreeable.

“Telugu Proverb:
తానొకటి తలిస్తే దైవమొకటి తలిచినది”
— English Translation:
When he planned one thing, God planned another.Man proposes, God disposes.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాతకు దగ్గ నేర్పవలెనా”
— English Translation:
Must you teach your grandfather how to cough ?

“Telugu Proverb:
తాబెట్టినది ముషిణిమొక్క అయినా చేపట్టవలెను”
— English Translation:
What he has planted although it be Strychnine he must cherish.Mushini Mokka is the Strychnos Nux-Vomica.A patron must not forsake his dependent under any circumstances.

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— English Translation:
When the grandfather was asked Whether he would like to be married, he said, “Who will give me [a daughter,] my boy ?”

“Telugu Proverb:
తాబోతూ బొల్లి యెద్దుకు కుడితి”
— English Translation:
When about to go off herself, [she ordered] the white ox [to be fed with] rice washings.Applied to the absurdity of a person troubling himself with affairs in which he has no longer any interest.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాతా సంక్రాంతి పట్టు పట్టు”
— English Translation:
O grandfather! Sankranti [has arrived] catch it! catch it!Sankranti is the transit of the sun from Sagittarius to Capricornus, when the Hindus celebrate the Pongal feast-This is chaff; old people observe the feast very scrupulously.

“Telugu Proverb:
తాబోతే మజ్జిగలేదంటే, పెరుగుకు చీటివ్రాయుమన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
After being refused butter-milk, when he went himself, he ordered his servant to write for curds.After being refused a trifling request, to demand authoritatively some thing much greater.