ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
గోనెలకంటే గోతాలు మెండు”
— English Translation:
There are more small sacks than big ones.

“Telugu Proverb:
చక్కదనానకు లోటిపిట, సంగీతానకు గాడిదె”
— English Translation:
For beauty, a camel; for singing, an ass.

“Telugu Proverb:
గోరంత వుంటే, కొండంత చేస్తాడు”
— English Translation:
When it is as small as a finger nail, he makes a mountain of it.To make a mountain of a mole-hill.

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— English Translation:
When [the guest] was asked whether he would take biscuits, or cold breakfast, he replied that he would take both, and hot breakfast too with the good man of the house.Applied to an ill mannered glutton.The first cut, and all the loaf besides.

“Telugu Proverb:
గోరీకాడి నక్కవత్తు”
— English Translation:
Like a jackal at a tombA tantalizing position, as he cannot get into it.Like a cat round hot milk.

“Telugu Proverb:
చక్కెర పూత పూశిన విషము”
— English Translation:
Poison covered with sugar.A flattering speech is honied poison. (Latin)Sugared words generally prove bitter(Spanish)

“Telugu Proverb:
గోరుచుట్టు పయిన రోకటి పోటు”
— English Translation:
A blow with a pestle on a whitlow.

“Telugu Proverb:
చచ్చిన చారమేకపాలు పోయిన బోశిముంతెడు”
— English Translation:
The milk given by the streaked goat which is dead filled the lost pot with a piece out.

“Telugu Proverb:
గోవులను కోశి చెప్పులను దానము చేశినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like killing cows and giving away sandals [made of the hide.]Steal the goose, and give the giblets in alms.

“Telugu Proverb:
చచ్చినవాని కండ్లు చేరెడు”
— English Translation:
A dead man's eyes are very broad.Lavishing praises on the dead which were not bestowed on the living.

“Telugu Proverb:
గుర్రానికి తోక వుంటే తానే విసురుకొంటుందిగాని, సావిట్లో వుండే గుర్రాలకన్నిటికీ విసురుతున్నదా”
— English Translation:
If the horse has a tail, it drives away its own flies; does it drive away the flies from all the horses in the stable ?Said when a selfish person is exalted.An ill man in oflice is a mischief to the public.

“Telugu Proverb:
గొర్రెను తినేవాడు పోతే, బర్రెను తినేవాడు వచ్చినట్టు”
— English Translation:
When the man who ate sheep went, a man who ate buffalos came.Parting with one rascal and getting a greater scoundrel in his place.

“Telugu Proverb:
గూనికి తోడు గుర్రపు వాయువు”
— English Translation:
A humpbacked man with convulsions.(Sec Nos. 1755, 1830.)

“Telugu Proverb:
గొల్లవాడి కొమ్ము యెచ్చనూ యెచ్చదు, తగ్గనూ తగ్గదు",”
— ,English Translation:
The shepherd’s Kavadi neither rises nor sinks.Because he does not swing his pots on each end.The fortunes of a sheep-farmer are subject to sudden reverses.Applied to a precarious mode of living.

“Telugu Proverb:
గుళ్లో దేవునికి నైవేద్యము లేకుంటే, పూజారి పుళిహోరకు యేడ్చినాడట",”
— ,"English Translation:
While the idol in the temple was in want of Naivédyam, the priest cried for Pulihora.Pulihora is a more expensive ofl‘ering prepared with acid.

“Telugu Proverb:
గొల్లవారింటి పెండ్లి తెల్లవారింది”
— English Translation:
The morning dawns before the shepherds’ marriage is begun.They have so many disputes that nothing can be settled.