ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
కత్తి తీశి కంపలో వేశి యేకు తీశి పొడుచుకుంటానన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like a man throwing away the knife and threatening to kill himself with a flock of cotton.Saying and doing are two things.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఓకారము రానివాడు వడ్లు గుణించినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like one who does not know the alphabet attempting multiplication.

“Telugu Proverb:
కంచి అంత కాపరము గడ్డలు చేసినది”
— English Translation:
She made the family as large as Kanchi into clods.Said of a woman who by going astray brings disgrace upon the whole family.Kanchi is the celebrated town of Conjeveram.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఓడలు బండ్లా వస్తున్నవి, బండ్లు వోడలా వస్తున్నవి”
— English Translation:
Ships come on carts; carts come on ships.When ships are broken up, the pieces are carried on carts.Good and ill fortune follow each other.

“Telugu Proverb:
కంకణముల చెయ్యి ఆడితే, కడియముల చెయ్యి ఆడును.If the hand with Kankanamulu moves, the hand with Kadiyamulu moves also.Konkanamulu are bracelets worn by women. Kadiyamulu are those worn by men.Where woman leads man follows.",”
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“Telugu Proverb:
ఓడు వోడంటే, కంచం వోడన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
One said “ Loss, loss !” the other replied “A hole in the dish.”A pun on the word Odu.

“Telugu Proverb:
కంచము అమ్మి మెట్టెలు కొన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Selling the dish and buying toe-rings.He has given the hen for the egg. (German)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఓపనివాడు కోరనిదీ, ఒంటనివాడు ఆడనిదీ లేదు.",”
— ,English Translation:
There is nothing which an invalid will not ask for; and there is nothing which an envious man will not say.

“Telugu Proverb:
కంచి అంత కాపరము గడ్డలు చేసినది”
— English Translation:
She made the family as large as Kanchi into clods.Said of a woman who by going astray brings disgrace upon the whole family.Kanchi is the celebrated town of Conjeveram.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఓపనివారికి వద్దన్నవారే తలి తండ్రులు”
— English Translation:
The lazy man looks upon those as his parents who say “Don’t [work ].”An idler is delighted at every interruption.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఓబీ ఓబీ నీవు వడ్లు దంచు, నేను పక్కలు యెగర వేస్తాను”
— English Translation:
Obi, Obi, you pound the rice, and I’ll shake my sides.(i.e. imitate the action of pounding).Applied to an idle skulk, who pretends to be always busy.Lazy folks take the most pains.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఓరిస్తే ఓరుగల్లు పట్నమవుతుంది”
— English Translation:
With patience, Orugallu will become a city.(For Orugallu sco No. 1971.)Rome was not built in a day.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఓర్చలేని రెడ్డి వుండీ చెరిచెను, చచ్చీ చెరిచెను”
— English Translation:
The envious Reddi ruined the village while living, and was a curse to it when dead.A Reddi who had oppressed the people of his village all his life, requested them, when dying, to burn his body in a certain spot. This they willingly acceded to, and took the Reddi’s corpse there for that purpose, when they were attacked by the inhabitants of the neighbouring village, within the limit of which the Reddi had desired to be burned, and this became an everlasting cause of contention. (See Tatachari’s Tales Page 5.)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఓర్చలేనమ్మ వడిని నిప్పులు కట్టుకొంటే, వడీ దడీ కూడా కాలినది”
— English Translation:
When the envious woman put fire in her waist, her clothes were burnt and the mat screen also.Causing one's own ruin through envy.12

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— English Translation:
When a man married a blind woman, on account of the smallness of the jointure, she broke all the pots in the pile.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఓలి తక్కువ అని గుడ్డిదాన్ని పెండ్లాడితే నెలకు మూడు ఆవాలు”
— English Translation:
When he married a blind woman, because of the small jointure, [she broke] three kilns of pots a month.False economy.