ఈ పుటను అచ్చుదిద్దలేదు
TELUGU PROVERBS.
1477. పుట్టిన యిన్నాళ్ళకు పురుషుడు యజ్ఞము చేశెను.
- After living for so many years the man performed a sacrifice.
- Good luck comes at last.
- Fortune knock: once at least at every man's gale.
- Fortune is like the market, where if you hide your time, the price will fall.
1478. పుట్టిన వానికి తమ్ముడు, పుట్టే వానికి అన్న.
- The younger brother of him who is born, the elder brother of him who is about to be born.
- Said jokingly of a dwarf.
1479. పుట్టుచాయేగాని పెట్టుచాయ వచ్చునా.
- The natural colour will remain, but will the artificial colour stand ?
- False pretensions.
1480. పుట్టెడాముదము పట్టించుకొని పొర్లాడినా అంటేదే అంటును గాని అంటనిది అంటదు.
- Although a man besmear himself with a Puțți of castor oil and roll [among the grain] only what sticks, will stick to him, what does not, won’t.
- (See No. 1720.)
- A Puțți is 500 lbs.
- A man can only obtain that which his destiny has prepared for him.
- Every man hath his lot.
- No butter will stick to his bread.
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