ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
కొరివితో కొప్పు గోకుకొన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like scratching one’s head with a firebrand.Applied to the use of bad agents.

“Telugu Proverb:
కొండ యెక్కేవాని మొలను కొడవలి చెక్కినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like a sickle carried in the waist of a man climbing up a hill.An additional danger and difficulty.

“Telugu Proverb:
కొండవీటి చేంత్రాడు”
— English Translation:
Like a well-rope at Kondavidu.Where water is very scarce and the wells very deep.Said of a long-winded story.

“Telugu Proverb:
కృతఘ్నునికి చేశిన మేలు”
— English Translation:
Good done to an ungrateful person.

“Telugu Proverb:
కొండమీదినుంచి పడ్డ వానికి గాయములు యెన్ని”
— English Translation:
How many are the wounds of a man who has fallen from the top of a hill?A man inured to difliculties.

“Telugu Proverb:
కొండంత దూదికి కొండంత నిప్పు యేల”
— English Translation:
Why a mountain of fire to [burn down] a mountain of cotton?A little fire burn: up a great deal of corn.

“Telugu Proverb:
కొంప తీస్తివా రామన్నా ఆంటే, అందుకు సందేహమా అన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
“Have you ruined me Ramanna?” [said a man to his parrot] “Is there any doubt of that?” it replied.A man was duped into buying a parrot by the seller pretending it had power to discover hidden treasure. He pointed to a place where money had been previously buried and enquired of the parrot, which answered ""Is there any doubt of that?"" the only sentence it had been taught to repeat. The purchaser having bought the parrot for a large sum, in vain endeavoured to cause it to discover treasure. At last in his disappointment he cried ""Have you ruined me Ramanna?"" when he received the same answer "" Is there any doubt of that?""Applied to a person who knowingly gives bad advice to others, and then laughs at their misfortunes.

“Telugu Proverb:
కుడుములు వండలేని ఆడదీ, కూనరాగము తియ్యలేని మొగవాడూ లేరు”
— English Translation:
There is no woman who cannot cook kudumus, nor man who cannot hum a tune.Kudumulu is a common kind of cake.Applied to things which are very common.

“Telugu Proverb:
కూత కరణము”
— English Translation:
A karanam to talk.(Sec NM. 1811, 2042. -For Karanam see No. 154. }A great talker but not good at his work.

“Telugu Proverb:
కుప్పలో మాణిక్యము”
— English Translation:
A diamond in a dunghill.One worthy amongst many worthless.A diamond is valuable though it lie on a dunghill.

“Telugu Proverb:
కూడైతే కద్దుగాని కులస్థులకు వెరచి వచ్చినాను”
— English Translation:
As for food I have it, but I came here from fear of the caste people.Said by an idle beggar, as an excuse for asking alms.

“Telugu Proverb:
కుప్ప తగలబెట్టి పేలాలు వేయించుకొని తినేవాడు”
— English Translation:
A man who sets fire to the whole heap and begins to eat parched grain.The work of a fool.

“Telugu Proverb:
కూతుండ్ల కన్నమ్మకు కురిచీపీటలు, కొడుకుల కన్నమ్మకు గోడ పంచలు”
— English Translation:
The lady who has daughters is given a chair, but the lady who has sons has to lean against the wall.

“Telugu Proverb:
కుమ్మర ఆవములో గచ్చకాయ వేశినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like throwing a Gachcha nut into a potter’s kiln.If the nut of this tree be thrown into a kiln, it will burst, and break the pots.A great injury done by a slight action.

“Telugu Proverb:
కూత లార్భాటాలేగాని కుప్పలో గింజ లేదు”
— English Translation:
Great cries, but not a grain in the heap.A great noise of threshing, but no grain to thresh.""Great cry and little wool” as the fellow said when he sheared the pig.

“Telugu Proverb:
కుమ్మర ఆవములో యిత్తడి ముంత దొరుకునా”
— English Translation:
Will a brass pot be found in a potter’s kiln ?A worthy person is not to be found amongst the worthless.