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TELUGU PROVERBS.
1678. మణులు చెక్కిన సంకెళ్లు.
- Fetters set with gems.
- Fetters still.
1679. మతి లేని మాట, శ్రుతి లేని పాట.
- A senseless speech, a tuneless song.
1680. మదురు మీది పిల్లి వలె వున్నాడు.
- He is like the cat on the coping.
- i. e. lying steadily in wait.
- Said of a cool, calculating, selfish man.
1681. మనమడు నేర్చుకొన్నట్టు, అవ్వకు దురద తీరినట్టు.
- The grandson learnt his lesson, and the grandmother's itching was taken away.
- The grandmother made her grandson write the alphabet on her back.
- To kill two birds with one stone.
- To bring down two apples with one stick. (Dutch.)[1]
1682. మనమెరగని చెవులకు మద్ది కాయలా.
- [Are we to put] ear ornaments on ears that we have never heard of?
- Said of persons whose pretensions to learning are not acknowledged.
1683. మనసు మహమ్మేరు దాటుతున్నది, కాలు కడప దాట లేదు.
- The mind travels over Mahammeru, but the foot does not pass over the threshold.
- (See No. 1708. )
- Meru or Mahammeru is the fabulous mountain on which Brahma is said to reside attended by Rishis, &c. It appears really to he the high land of Tartary immediately north of the Himalayas. ( Wilson).
- Meru or Mahammeru is the fabulous mountain on which Brahma is said to reside attended by Rishis, &c. It appears really to he the high land of Tartary immediately north of the Himalayas. ( Wilson).
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