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“Telugu Proverb:
గడ్డపలుగులు మింగి శొంఠి కషాయాలు తాగినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Swallowing crowbars and taking ginger draughts.An insufficient remedy.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోళ్లకు రెక్కలూ తాళ్లకు చండ్లూ వున్నట్టు,”
— ,"English Translation:
Like the wings of fowls, and the flower-stalks of palmyra trees.Domestic fowls make no use of their wings, and the flower-stalk (spadix) of the palmyra bears no fruit.Useless possessions.

“Telugu Proverb:
గడ్డము కాలి వొకడు యేడుస్తూ వుంటే, చుట్టకు నిప్పు యిమ్మని వొకడు వెంబడించినట్టు”
— English Translation:
When one man was crying out that his board was on fire another followed him asking him for a light for his cigar.If my beard is burnt, others try to light their pipes at it. (Turkish.)¤

“Telugu Proverb:
కోళ్ల బేరానకు వెళ్లి కోటలో కబుర్లు అడిగినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Going to sell fowls and asking the news in the fort.A meddling rascal.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఖాజీని ఫాజీగా ఫాజీని ఖాజీగా చేస్తాడు”
— English Translation:
He makes the great, mean; and the mean, great.The power of God.

“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.

“Telugu Proverb:
కోమటి సాక్ష్యము”
— English Translation:
A Komati’s evidence.A story is told of a Komati who, when asked to identify a horse about which a Musalman and Hindu were quarrelling, said the forepart of it looked like the Musalman's horse and the hind part like the Hindu’s.

“Telugu Proverb:
గట్టివాడే గాని, కడుపు మాత్రము గుల్ల”
— English Translation:
He is a clever man no doubt, but his belly is hollow.An ironical phrase.The word rendered clever also means “solid.” The expression his belly is hollow is equivalent to “empty-headed.""