ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎరుక పిడికెడు ధనము”
— English Translation:
Acquaintance is a handful of money.

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— English Translation:
The woman who was met wasted away.One woman met another out of whom a spirit had been driven, and fancied she was possessed.Unreasonable fears.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎర్రను చూపి చేపను పట్టినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like catching a fish with a worm.Fish follow the bait.10

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎద్దు దున్నగా పిణుజు వొగిరించినది”
— English Translation:
While the bullock was ploughing, the tick pulled and blew.Applied to a person who does little in assisting others but makes much of it.What a dust have I raised! quoth the fly upon the coach.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎలుకకు పిల్లి పొంచు వేశినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like a cat crouching for a mouse.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎద్దు పుండు కాకికి ముద్దా”
— English Translation:
Is the bullock's sore tender to the crow?Said of one devoid of sympathy for others.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎలుకకు పిల్లి సాక్షి”
— English Translation:
The cat a witness in the rat’s case.Interested evidence.A fox should not be of the jury at a goose trial.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎద్దు యీనెనంటే, కొట్టాన కట్టుమన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
“The bullock has calved” [said one] “Then tie it up in the shed"" [replied the other].Applied to a foolish speech.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎలుక చావుకు పిల్లి మూర్ఛపోనా”
— English Translation:
Will the cat faint at the death of the rat?Indifference.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎద్దు యెండకు లాగ, దున్నపోతు నీడకు లాగ”
— English Translation:
The bullock pulled towards the sun, and the buffalo towards the shade.A bad match.Every couple is not a pair.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎలుకమీది కోపాన యింటికి చిచ్చు పెట్టుకొన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like getting angry with a rat and setting fire to one’s house.Burn not your house to fright away the mice.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎద్దుల వెంబడే తాళ్లు”
— English Translation:
Ropes after bullocks.Taken to tie them up with.Providing one’s self with what is necessary.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎల్లవారమ్మల బ్రతుకు తెల్లవారితే తెలుస్తుంది”
— English Translation:
When it dawns, we shall know whose mother is alive.Said by a man to his wife, at whose instigation he had agreed that they should kill his mother. The mothers of the pair slept together and the wife's mother was murdered instead of the husband's, with the latter’s knowledge. The wife, having an inkling of the truth, endeavoured to persuade her husband to go and see which of the two they had spared, and he replied as above.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎద్ద్దేమి యెరుగురా అటుకులచవి, గాడ్దేమి యెరుగురా గంధపొడి వాసన.",”
— ,English Translation:
What does a bullock know of the taste of parched grain? what does an ass know of the smell of perfume?To throw pearls before swine.Strew no roses before swine. (Dutch.)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎలుగు మంటికి తండసము తీశినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like pulling a bear’s hairs out with tweezers.An endless business.A cask that will never fill. (Greek)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎనుబోతుమీద వాన కురిశినట్టు”
— English Translation:
As rain falls on a male buffalo.Apathetic indifference.