ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈ వూరికి ఆ వూరెంతో, ఆ వూరికి యీ వూరంతే.",”
— ,English Translation:
The distance between that village and this village is the same as that between this village and that village.Six of one and half a dozen of the other.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈగకు యిలి, పాముకు బలి పుట్టదు.",”
— ,English Translation:
No food for a fly not offering for a snake.Said of a miscr’s house.Ye’ll brok your neck as soon as your fast i' his house. (Scotch)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈ చేత చేసి ఆ చేత అనుభవించినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Doing with this hand, and receiving the reward with that.Said of the certain result of either a good or bad deed.As you sow you shall reap.As you make your bed, so you must lie on it.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈతకంటే మించిన లోతు లేదు”
— English Translation:
When a man has to swim it matters not what the depth is.When a man determines to face his diffiiculties nothing daunts him.Over shoes, over boots.It is all the same whether a man has both legs in the stocks or one. (German) ​

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈతకు మించిన లోతూ, గోచికి మించిన దారిద్ర్యమూ లేదు”
— English Translation:
There is no greater depth to the man who is obliged to swim, nor poverty to him who is reduced to a clout.Reduced to the last extremity.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈతగింజ యిచ్చి తాటిగింజ లాగేవాడు”
— English Translation:
A man who gives a date stone and takes a palmyra nut.Ita is the wild date (Phoenix Sylvestris ). Tadu is the Palmyra (Borassus FlabelliformisOffering a gift of slight value for the purpose of gaining a rich present.Throw in a spirit to catch a salmon.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈత చెట్టు కింద పాలు తాగినా, కల్లే అంటారు”
— English Translation:
If you even drink milk under a date tree they will say it’s toddy.People are judged by the company they keep.Tell me the company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.From a river spring clear water flows. (Latin)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇసుక తక్కిడి, పేడ తక్కిడి”
— English Translation:
Cheating with sand, cheating with cowdung.Two travellers met: one had a bundle of sand, the other a bundle of cowdung; one said his bundle contained raw rice, the other that his contained boiled rice. They agreed to exchange, and immediately ran off in different directions, each to find himself outwitted by the other. (See story 54, in Telugu Selections).One trick is met by another. (Spanish)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈతముల్లు విరగ దొక్కే కాలము”
— English Translation:
He is at the age when he can tread on and break a date thorn.Said of an unruly scamp.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇస్తి వాయనము, పుచ్చుకొంటి వాయనము”
— English Translation:
I gave cakes and took cakes.(Sec No. 290.)Vayanam is a gift of cakes, &c., to a Brahman.Taking as much as you give.To one who has a pie in the oven you may give a bit of your cake. (French)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఈనగాచి నక్కలపాలు చేశెను”
— English Translation:
He watched [the field] until the harvest, and then let it go to the jaokals.

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— English Translation:
He got into the house and counted the rafters.Preparatory to laying a false claim to it, and adducing his intimate knowledge as a proof that the building was his own.Swindling.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇల్లు తిరిగి రమ్మంటే, యిలారం తిరిగి వచ్చినట్టు.",”
— ,English Translation:
When he was asked to walk round the house he walked round the shed.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇల్లు మింగే అత్తగారికి యుగము మింగే కోడలు”
— English Translation:
A daughter-in-law who swallows the age (Yuga) to a mother-in-law who swallows the house.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇల్లు ఇర్కటం, ఆలు మర్కటం”
— English Translation:
The house is small, and the wife like a monkey.A double difficulty.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇల్లు యేడ్చే అమావాస్య, యిరుగూ పొరుగూ యేడ్చే తద్దినం, వూరుయేడ్చే పెండ్లి లేదు”
— English Translation:
There is no new moon which the household regrets; nor annual ceremony, the neighbours; nor marriage, the whole village.At the new moon the Hindus abstain from eating rice in the evening, but take care to make up for it with other good things ; at the Taddina (ceremony on the anniversary of a deceased relative’s death) the neighbours are feasted ; and to a marriage the whole village is invited.