Idioms
वाकप्रचार
- A buffalo does not die at the curse of a crow
- A buffalo does not feel its horns as a burden
- A festoon of fish for the den of the she fox.
- A five year old girl is a supportive for twenty five kinds of work.
- A good excuse to come
- A injured finger will get stubbed again
- A lame boy gets a deficient girl.
- A little bit of oil
- A smoker can be identified by his throat, a sniffer by his eyes and a betel leaf chewer by his compound.
- A snob who gets a fortune will hold an umbrella even at midnight
- A word once uttered cannot be taken back
- Abuses of worms
- Act leading to loss of one's head.
- After coming fast like a horse he goes like a worm
- After roaming about the whole village, he returns to urinate at the holy Tulasi plant
- All deeds done are inauspicious
- An injured finger is likely to get hurt again
- An unwanted wife is also disregarded by the public
- Anda, Thinda and Mukunda
- As if that was not enough…
- As long as there is life in the heart
- As the king so the subjects
- At a leftover heap there surely will be a crow
- At exact noon
- At the auspicious time
- At the time of eating the eyes are waxy/glaze over. When a man become rich he avoids his former friends.
- Back doesn’t listen
- Because the person who has spilled oil cries, why should the person who has spilled coconuts cry?
- Become like a rolling board
- Being bitter it is difficult to swallow and being sweet it is difficult to spit.
- Bitter poison
- Blind light
- Blow in the dark
- Broke two
- Brought that which was there and also wasn't
- Came Diwali and the festivals settled
- Can be used for storing lime
- Catch by the neck and sink the teeth in
- Characteristics like Loranthus
- Clear water
- Coconut palm that has lost its top part
- Cold second
- Comparable to a water lily which is always in water
- Compassion grows like a planted seed.
- Converted by eating the flesh of a gnat
- Cooked rice grains not touching each other
- Cost of chaff
- Cow on the garbage dump
- Crow that flies upside down
- Curry item that is grinding
- Deed done
- Destiny can never be prevented.
- Dhobi's bundle
- Dhobi's job
- Do not beg while riding an elephant, do not nap sitting on a horse
- Do not defecate on the leaf on which you had taken food
- Do not mention any work, but do not forget to call for food.
- Do not pull out the sickle from someone reaping.
- Do not sell the strings where the flowers are being sold.
- Do not stand under a coconut palm during wind storms.
- Does the grinder become soaked if drenched?
- Does the mere utterance of fire burn one's body?
- Doing a theft in a crowd
- Doing head down and legs up
- Don’t be sad that a girl is born to you, she will be helpful to you, and don’t be happy that a son is born to you as he will be a torture to you in many ways
- Don’t expect to fill your stomach by sucking on the thumb.
- Don’t gossip too much
- Don’t say this and that these are Diwali lamps my son
- Dried tree will never generate new sprouts.
- Early morning sunrays
- Eats and drinks and god gives again.
- Elder's words are to taken as truth
- Empty hand
- Even if the contents of the pot can be removed, can the destiny be changed from your head?
- Even if the cow is killed, it is not proper to kill the calf.
- Even if the neem tree is irrigated with nectar it will not become sweet
- Even ready to beg if life is spared
- Even the jaggery feels it's life is sweet
- Evil power Gulika on tongue
- Extremely sour
- Fate does not leave one even if one leaves ones village.
- Feeling disgusted with oneself
- Fiery days
- Flood waters
- Food is poison for indigestion
- For a bear the hair on the head and the fur are alike
- For everyone his role is important
- For priest in the name of God
- For the cat it is a game for the rat it is its life.
- For the first time
- Frightening by beating on the screen
- Give at least a petal where you have to give a flower.
- Glimpse only
- Goatee
- God helps those who are helpless
- Haircut of Rameshwaram
- Half haircut
- Hasn’t become the bride but have been the bridesmaid
- Have we to ask the mortar his consent before grinding spices.
- Having content is extreme fortune
- He came for buttermilk but he hides the vessel
- He came in search of a buffalo calf in the marriage pandal
- He couldn’t digest what I said
- He earns, he spends, why do we feel envious?
- He is not crying for the dead grandmother but for the black gram cakes.
- He is saltless
- He roamed the whole forest but still get not firewood.
- Heavy rain
- How much does a rat excrete and using that how much dung cakes can be dried out?
- I will be doing my own death ceremonies
- If a sesame seed only is eaten, hunger is satiated only to the extent of a sesame seed.
- If all sit in the palanquin who will carry it?
- If beaten on head will strike back using tail if beaten on tail will strike back using head
- If called today the answer comes tomorrow
- If desire increases will the longevity increase?
- If god is with you, who else do you want?
- If god wills, a mango tree will yield jackfruit
- If one does not fear a bear does he have to fear a woollen blanket
- If speaking will complain and if not speaking still will complain
- If the crow becomes the master, the veranda will be covered with excrement
- If the goldsmith pierces the earlobe it is not painful.
- If the hair of dog has grown how does it benefit the barber?
- If the rice gruel is hot, tender mango gets a bite
- If the wife is young the mind of the husband is filled with jealousy
- If you are able to
- If you are virtuous the world too is so
- If you believe it is god, otherwise it is a stone
- If you have rice in the sacred vessel the neighbour will invite you for lunch
- If you work you will gain wealth
- In front of ten people
- In the name of the child the mother can enjoy
- Inappropriate time
- Insect's noise
- Instantly
- Is it easy to peel bananas or to eat them
- Is it's self-respect or the master that is more important for a dog
- Is there a need to tie a bell on an elephant?
- It is not a child's play
- Itching plant words
- Ivy gourd has numerous seeds, a fat/great man has lots of wisdom
- Just because one sits on a drum, one shouldn't pull down a fence
- Lamp balanced on the head of a cat
- Lamp inside a vessel
- Leaky head
- Leftover rice
- Let the bride die or the groom die but the donation, wad of notes to the priest has to be given
- Like a cobbler's work
- Like a hair in butter
- Like a salt lump in a sweet pudding
- Like droplets on the taro leaf which will not wet the leaf
- Like father like son, like mother like daughter
- Like serving white rice with a sulking face
- Like the one who was on the ash heap riding the elephant's back
- Living about by plugging the anus
- Long creeper
- Look at him dying
- Looking for a toilet when the call of nature arises
- Making a mountain out of a mustard and an elephant out of an ant
- Mere washing of bad deeds will not be atonement.
- Milk and water
- Mote in the eye
- Music party of an ass for the wedding of a monkey
- My arecanut is on your ship.
- Neither does one do it himself nor allows others to do it.
- Neither does one eat it himself nor allows others to eat it.
- No stool in the rectum
- No trace of even powder
- No way to have even buttermilk but is trying to get curds.
- No wonder horses don’t have horns
- Not able to bite if you put a finger in his mouth
- Not enough for tying to the tail
- Not enough to touch the tooth
- Not even a little bit of space even for a sesame seed
- Not from anywhere particular
- Not in sunlight not in rain not in dew
- Not make big
- Not of loose change
- Nothing will fall off
- Nowadays nobody comes to assist anyone
- One does not become a king by riding an elephant and one does not become poor for walking
- One knuckling each for each bite of morsel
- One should take only that which one can hold snuggly in one's fist.
- One who dies by drinking milk does not require any poison.
- One who does not know hymns is not a Bhagvatha, one who knows not the mantras is not a priest
- One who eats a goat everyday will feel a chicken is chicken feed.
- One who has does injustice will not get a helping hand from god.
- One's salvation can be achieved only when one dies.
- One's shadow is anchored at one's feet
- Opening to the heavens
- Opposite or inappropriate words
- Outside one thing inside another
- Person with head
- Plentiful of mango and jackfruit
- Pounding bones and powdering them
- Poverty is sure to be extended
- Rain on the back of a buffalo.
- Rice got overcooked and became gruel.
- Ridiculous half haircut
- Rolling about like leftover leaf plate, roaming about in the village
- Sadness cot
- Same refrain
- Saying one thing and doing differently
- Shapely and beautiful teeth
- Sitting on the bank and trying to drink water using the tail.
- Sleeping like Kumbakarna
- Some food for sustenance is being provided
- Spends ten times of what one earns.
- Splashing lentil curry
- Started to make the idol of Ganesh but it turned out to be a monkey
- Stools and urine
- Subbha at sahib's wedding trying to get fame. Getting benefit at another's cost.
- Sugarcane in the mouth of an elephant
- Sunday of the garden lizard
- Sweating in water
- Sweeten your mouth
- Talks of the dog's death ceremony
- Tell to blow the ear and he blows the pounding mortar
- Temple festival without the elephant
- That which was received as gift was given away as alms
- The Konkani person died of heavy load, the Shenoi died of heavy eating
- The alliance was for the son the marriage finalized for the father
- The big basket falling in the small basket
- The boon of the demon Bhasmasura
- The brahmana never converts and the ocean never dries
- The bridegroom looks at the bride and the priest looks at his dakshina
- The calves have a rope to stop them from running away and the women have the sacred thread to stop them from going astray
- The cat always lands on its four feet
- The cat eyes the milk while the dog eyes the vessel with food
- The cat that went to Kashi
- The cat's teeth never hurts the kitten.
- The child who eats ghee can be distinguished from his complexion.
- The child will protest only to the mother
- The child's weapon is its tears
- The couple suited for the house
- The cow in the mouth of a tiger
- The curry is talking
- The daughter in law looks in the mirror while the mother in law looks in the vessel
- The dead hen is moving its feathers
- The debt of previous birth has to be repaid in this birth.
- The disease of body can be cured but not of the mind.
- The dog keeping rhythm for the singing of the donkeys
- The dust is in the eye but blowing is in the ear.
- The eagle flies upside down
- The elephant has two set of teeth one to eat and the other as showpiece!
- The food tastes good if mother serves it
- The girl is beautiful but with blind eyes.
- The girl is intelligent for she looks for the ladle in the place of spoon and spoon in place of ladle.
- The goldsmith will steal gold even from his mother's mangalsutra.
- The grandfather does not want grandchildren, but why does the great-grandfather wants great-grandchildren
- The grandmother desires for grandchildren while the mother wishes for no child
- The king's mind and the shadow of a tree changes frequently
- The lentil curry is whelping
- The living has no food but the dead get oblations.
- The new cloth is for body the old is for the pillow
- The offering given to the deity is actually for the priest.
- The one who kicked fell on the bed.
- The procession of fowls for the marriage of the monkey
- The rabbit's whole life is spent at the roots of plants
- The rotten ash gourd for the priest Kushta
- The scolding addressed to the daughter affect the daughter in law
- The scrapper broke, the mother in-law died, the daughter in-law became intelligent
- The sugar cane standing in water
- The water from the spring will stop on attaining a level, while flood waters flow.
- The wick burns bright that is about to be extinguished.
- The woman's place is always near the hearth.
- There is no bush on which the crow doesn’t excrete and there is no stake on which the dog doesn’t urinate
- There is no education without a preceptor or mentor
- There is no medicine for jealousy.
- There is no treatment or medicine for envy/jealousy.
- Thick banana with thick skin
- Those who deserve elephants should sit on elephants and those who deserve donkeys should sit on donkeys.
- Those who have hair can tie their hair any which way.
- Those who have no respect for the preceptor or mentor will perish
- Those who move away from justice and do injustice will not get a helping hand from god.
- Thought about one thing, what happened is something else
- Threesome fighting amongst makes it difficult to cook. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
- To beat the drums
- To beat the plate
- To cut someone's throat with a fallen hair.
- Today is Holi, tomorrow sweets, and day after tomorrow the third day of Holi festival Ukkuli.
- Too busy to even breathe
- Too much is too bad
- Treat me well as I am your eldest son-in-law
- Universal arrangement
- Uprooting the plant and checking if the roots have sprout.
- Using hog plum instead of mango
- Water hyacinth in the pond
- Water will stagnate where there is a pit.
- We remember god in our difficult times
- Wedding of the cat and the dog
- Weight over weight
- Went down the drain
- What is the status of the earthworm compared to the Sesha serpent
- Whatever said is law
- When god gives he gives from all sides
- When ill fortune comes even the plank one sits will turn your enemy.
- When one is alive travels in a palanquin, when dead on a bamboo bier.
- When the bull raises its tail and you know what comes next
- When the wealthy eats it is for taste, when the poor eats it is for hunger.
- When there is sacred water the priest is not there to offer it, when there is the priest there is no sacred water to offer
- When you receive it come from all sides.
- Where there is sin there is fear
- Who will feel a blanket to be burdensome at the time of cold weather?
- Why should one who comes for buttermilk want to know the cost of the buffalo?
- Wick in the lamp
- Will eat even the dog poo is given roasted
- Will it be possible to get more milk from one's elbow than the breast?
- Will the bitter pumpkin become sweet if it is dipped in Ganga
- Will the pickle have as much saltiness as salt itself?
- Won't even keep lightweight thorny kindling on wood
- Wont wakeup even if the house catches fire
- Won’t know if an elephant comes raging
- Words say one and mind says something else
- Work of Narada
- Work over, the doctor died
- Would one eat the peels too just because the bananas are sweet?
- You are giving me trouble
- You cannot be free from your sins just by visiting Kashi or Rameshwaram
- You haven’t been fruited on the tree.
- You haven’t sprouted from the earth
- Your coaching
- be broken down
- burning days
- retort