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“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.

“Telugu Proverb:
గూనివాడు పడుకునేవల్ల గూనివానికే తెలుసును”
— English Translation:
The humpback alone knows how he can lie comfortably.Every man knows but where his own shoe pinches. (Scotch)

“Telugu Proverb:
గోచికి పెద్ద, అంగవస్త్రముకు చిన్న”
— English Translation:
Too big for a clout, too small for a body-cloth.Neither one thing nor the other.Too little and too much spoils everything. (Danish)Not too little, not too much. (German)

“Telugu Proverb:
గుమ్మళ్లు కుళ్లినవి, ఆవాలు అల్లినవి”
— English Translation:
The pumpkins have become rotten, the mustard plants have spread.Said when the base and wicked rise in power and the great and good disappear.

“Telugu Proverb:
గుమ్మడికాయ పొయ్యే దారి యెరగడు, ఆవగింజ పొయ్యే దారి అట్టే పట్టి చూస్తాడు”
— English Translation:
He does not know the way the pumpkin goes, but troubles himself to find the way the mustard seed goes.

“Telugu Proverb:
గురువింద గింజ తన యెరుపేగాని ముడ్డి కింది నలుపు యెరగదు”
— English Translation:
The Guruvinda seed knows its redness, but not the blackness of its lower part.A man values himself highly, but does not know his own defects.No one sees his own faults. (German.)

“Telugu Proverb:
గురువుకు పంగనామాలు పెట్టినట్టు”
— English Translation:
To put Panganamams on your Guru.To outwit him.Panganamam is a very large Namam, the sectarial mark worn on the forehead by Vaishnavas. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
గురువు మాట మీరరాదు, గడ్డపార మింగరాదు”
— English Translation:
You should not transgress the commandment of your Guru, nor swallow a crowbar.The first is as bad for you as the second.

“Telugu Proverb:
గురువును మించిన శిష్యుడు”
— English Translation:
A disciple greater than his Guru.Said of an insolent fellow.

“Telugu Proverb:
గుర్రము గుడ్డిదయినా దాణాలో తక్కువ వుండదు”
— English Translation:
Although the horse be blind, he won’t eat less corn.Supporting a useless person.A bad horse eats as much as a good one. (Dutch.)

“Telugu Proverb:
గురువుతో గుద్దులాటా”
— English Translation:
May a man fight with his Guru?