ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
గుడ్డి కన్ను మూశినా వకటే తెరిచినా వకటే”
— English Translation:
It matters not whether the blind eye is open or shut.A useless man's absence is as good as his presence.

“Telugu Proverb:
గాము సోకినట్టు”
— English Translation:
As though possessed of a devil.

“Telugu Proverb:
గానుగాపే గానుగాపే నీవు కూర్చున్న పసేగదాఅ నూనె పొయ్యడం”
— English Translation:
O oil-woman! oil-woman! you pour out the oil as finely as you sit.Said to a cheat.

“Telugu Proverb:
గబ్బిలము ఆకాశము పడకుండా పట్టుకొంటావనుకొన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like the bat which thinks it holds up the sky and keeps it from falling.Said of a man who thinks everything depends on himself.

“Telugu Proverb:
గాలికి పోయిన పేలపిండి భగవదర్పితమన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Offering to God the flour which had been blown away by the wind.Let that which is lost be for God.What the abbot of Bamba cannot eat, he gives away for the good of his soul. (spanish.)

“Telugu Proverb:
గతిలేనమ్మకు మతిలేని మొగుడు”
— English Translation:
A helpless woman will get a foolish husband. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
గాలికి పుట్టి ధూళికి పెరిగినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Born of the wind, and reared up by the dust.Said by parents to an ungrateful son, or by a benefactor to an ungrateful dependant. ​

“Telugu Proverb:
కోన కావలి,”
— ,English Translation:
[Placing] a guard over a forest.Attempting impossibilities.

“Telugu Proverb:
గంధపొడిలో బూరగ పట్టినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like blowing a horn into perfumed powder.Gandhapodi is thrown over one another by the relations of the bride and bridegroom at Hindu marriages.

“Telugu Proverb:
గంతకు తగిన బొంత”
— English Translation:
Like packsaddle, like quilt.Like pot, like cover. (Dutch.)

“Telugu Proverb:
కోమటి పిరికి, కొట్టితే వురికి”
— English Translation:
A Komati is a coward; if you hit him, he runs away.(For Komati see No. 712. )

“Telugu Proverb:
కోవెల పోయి కొమ్మ యెక్కినట్టు”
— English Translation:
When the cuckoo flew it only mounted a branch.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోమటి నిజము”
— English Translation:
A Komati’s truth.

“Telugu Proverb:
గంప శిడి కాదు, గాలపు శిడి”
— English Translation:
It is not the basket, but the hook.Galapu Sidi is the hook used in the swinging festival (Charak Puja) and Gampa Sidi is a basket sometimes used instead of the hook.Applied to a very difficult task.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోమటి యిల్లు కాలినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like the burning of a Komati’s house.A heavy loss.

“Telugu Proverb:
గచ్చ పొద మీద యిసుక వేసి కయ్యానికి పిలుస్తున్నది”
— English Translation:
Throwing sand on a thorn bush and asking it to fight.Done by a Xantippe who could get no one to quarrel with.