ProverbPedia

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇచ్చి వచ్చే నిష్ఠురముకన్నా, యివ్వక వచ్చే నిష్ఠురము నయము.",”
— ,English Translation:
The offence given by not lending is to be preferred to the annoyance caused after lending.By anger on account of some damage done to the article lent.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటివాడు గొడ్డుగేదె అంటే, పొరుగువాడు పాడిగేదె అన్నట్టు”
— English Translation:
When the owner said his she-buffalo was barren, the neighbour said it was milch.Applied to a spirit of contradiction.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇచ్చుడుకాడూ గాడు, చచ్చుడుకాడూ గాడు, పూట పూటకూ కూటికి వచ్చుడుగాడు”
— English Translation:
He doesn’t pay, hang him, but he comes for every meal.Said by a cateress, of a customer who was more regular in his attendance than in his payments.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటిమీద రాయి వేశి వీపు వొగ్గేవాడు”
— English Translation:
Having thrown a stone on the top of the house, he stoops to catch it on his back.6

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇచ్చేవాణ్ని చూస్తే, చచ్చేవాడైనా లేచును.",”
— ,English Translation:
Even a dying man will rise up when he sees a liberal person.With the hope of receiving something from him.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటివాణ్ని లేపి దొంగచేతికి కట్టె యిచ్చినట్టు”
— English Translation:
Like waking the master, and giving the thief a stick.To hold with the hare, and hunt with the hounds.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇచ్చేవానికి పత్రమూ వద్దు, చచ్చేవానికి మందూ వద్దు”
— English Translation:
You need not take a bond from a man who is willing to pay, nor administer medicine to one who has made up his mind to die.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇంటివారు వేలు చూపితే, బయిటివారు కాలు చూపుతారు”
— English Translation:
If the members of your family point their fingers at you, the outsiders will point their legs.

“Telugu Proverb:
ఇత్యర్థలు యిగురు, ఇతిభావలు పులుసు”
— English Translation:
For sweet vegetable [ take your] “plain significations,” and for acid [take your] “deep meanings.”The reply of the wife of s logician (who would pay no attention to household matters and had given her no means of providing food) when he grumbled at the bad fare.

“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.