ProverbPedia

“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:
ఋణశేషము, వ్రణశేషము, అగ్నిశేషము, వుంచకూడదు”
— English Translation:
Remains of a debt, of a sore, or of a fire should not be left.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎక్కితే గుర్రపు రౌతు, దిగితే కాలి బంటు”
— English Translation:
If I ride I shall be a trooper, if I dismount I shall be a foot' soldier.A man who makes himself useful in any position.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఊళ్లు యేలే కొమారుడికన్నా వుపాదానమెత్తే పెనిమిటి నయము”
— English Translation:
A husband that begs is better than a son that rules over villages.The one clings to his wife, the other despises his mother.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎక్కిన వానికి యేనుగ లొజ్జు”
— English Translation:
The elephant is subject to the man who has mounted it.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఋషిమూలము, నదీమూలము, స్త్రీమూలము విచారించకూడదు”
— English Translation:
Enquire not into the origin of a Rishi, a river, or a woman.Rishi is a saint. (See Wilson‘s Sans. Diet. )

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎక్కిపోయి పట్టిచూచి దిగివచ్చి రాళ్ల రువ్వినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Having mounted [the tree] and felt [the fruit], he came down again and threw stones at it.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎంచబోతే మంచమెల్లా కంతలే”
— English Translation:
If you begin to count, you will find the whole cot full of holes.Referring to a bed made of plaited rope.When a man wishes to find fault, he loses no opportunities.When love fails we copy all faults.

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— English Translation:
He went to mock, and fell on his back.He went out shearing and he came home ‘horn.The biter bit.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఎంగిలిచేత్తో కాకికయినా మెతుకు విదపడు”
— English Translation:
He will not even throw his leavings to the crows.Said of a great miser.