ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇల్లే తీర్థం, వాకిలే వారణాశి, కడుపే కైలాసం”
— English Translation:
My house is my holy place; my threshold is Benares; my belly is my heaven.Said by an irreligious man.“Whose God is their belly."" Philippians iii. 18.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇల్లు కాలుచుండగా వాసాలు దూసుకొన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like pulling the rafters out of a burning house.A clumsy expedient.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇల్లు గెలవలేనివాడు రచ్చ గెలుచునా”
— English Translation:
Will he who cannot rule his own house, rule in the council ?He who has no voice in the valley, will have none in the council. (spanish)

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటివెనకాలకు వెళ్లి యిల్లు ముందుకు తెచ్చినట్టు”
— English Translation:
He brought the house forward by going behind it.Said jokingly of a man who professed to have improved the family prospects.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇది చలమో ఫలమో”
— English Translation:
Is this done wantonly or with an object ?

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటిసొమ్ము యిప్పపిండి, పొరిగింటి సొమ్ము పొడిబెల్లము”
— English Translation:
His own property is like Ippapindi, his neighbour’s like fine molasses.Ippapindi is the refuse of the nuts of the Ippa tree (Bassia Latifolia) and is remarkably bitter.Applied to a niggard.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇదుగో పులి అంటే, అదుగో తోక అన్నట్టు.",”
— ,English Translation:
When one said “Here’s a tiger!” the other said “And there’s his tail !”Rivaling each other in exaggeration. Capping a long-bow man.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంట్లో పాయసమున్న మందలో పాలుకూడానా”
— English Translation:
What! milk pudding in the house and milk also in the field ?Greediness.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇనప గుగ్గిళ్లు గాని, మినప గుగ్గిళ్లు కావు”
— English Translation:
Grains of iron, not of black gram.The pulse spoken of is the Phaseolus Roxhurghii.Said of a puzzling passage or a jawbreaking verse.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంట్లో పెండ్లి అయితే, వూళ్లో కుక్కలకు అడావుడీ.",”
— ,English Translation:
A marriage in the house is a fine thing for the village dogs.Men crowd to enjoy that for which they don’t pay.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇనుము కరిగేచోట యీగలకేమి వున్నది”
— English Translation:
What is there for flies in the place where iron is melted ?A place where nothing is to be got.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంట్లో యీగపులి, బయిట పెద్దపులి”
— English Translation:
At home he is a spider, abroad he is a tiger.Demure at home, a ruffian abroad.He looks as if butler would not melt in his mouth.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇనుము, తీట, పేము, పట్టిన చెయ్యి వూరకుండదు”
— English Translation:
The hand which has a bit of iron, the itch, or a bit of cane in it, never remains quiet.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంట్లో యీగలమోత, బయిట సవారీలమోత”
— English Translation:
In the house a buzzing of flies, outside the hum of palankin bearers.Outward show, but poverty at home.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇనుమున గూర్చి అగ్నికి సమ్మెటపెట్లు”
— English Translation:
The fire suffers the blows of the sledge-hammer for the sake of the hot iron.Being drawn into difficulties by one’s associates.

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— English Translation:
If so many great people don’t die, shall I alone die’! I don't want it.Said by a man when unwillingly refusing to eat something because Velamas did the same.Never be ashamed to eat your meal.He that is ashamed lo eat is ashamed to live. (French.)