ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
కూలికి వచ్చి పాలికి మాట్లాడినట్టు”
— English Translation:
He came for hire, and asked for a share [in the business].A cool request.

“Telugu Proverb:
కూచమ్మ కూడ బెట్టితే, మాచమ్మ మాయము చేశినది.",”
— ,English Translation:
Machamma made away with what Kuchamma gathered.

“Telugu Proverb:
కూశే గాడిదె వచ్చి మేశే గాడిదెను చెరిపినది”
— English Translation:
The braying donkey came and spoiled the grazing donkey’s business.When the one that was outside brayed, the other that was inside answered and was consequently discovered and driven out of the field.

“Telugu Proverb:
కూటికి పేదయితే, కులానికి పేదా”
— English Translation:
Though a man be poor, will he lose caste?

“Telugu Proverb:
కూడూ గుడ్డా అడగకపోతే, బిడ్డను సాకినట్టు సాకుతాను అన్నాడట.",”
— ,English Translation:
If you don't ask me for food and raiment I will care for you as my own child.Good words and no deeds are rushes and reeds.Fair words butter no parsnips.

“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.

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— English Translation:
When the mother gave her daughter a kuncham of grain, the daughter set before her mother a dishful of food.Kindness returned.One never loscth by doing good turns.Kindness produces kindness. (Latin.)

“Telugu Proverb:
కుమ్మరపురుగావటము”
— English Translation:
The manner of the mole-cricket.Never resting from doing mischief.