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This proverb is used to suggest that people with limited means or a small household should live within their boundaries and avoid unrealistic or extravagant ambitions. It emphasizes contentment and living a simple life proportional to one's small stature or resources.

This proverb is used to describe someone who gets excited, prepares, or makes plans based on someone else's actions or achievements, even though they have no direct involvement or benefit from it. It highlights unnecessary meddling or premature expectations.

This expression is used to mock someone who unnecessarily broadcasts their private family matters or domestic trivialities to the entire neighborhood to gain sympathy or attention. It highlights the tendency of some people to make a public spectacle of their personal problems.

This expression refers to excessive, unrealistic, or unattainable desires. It is used to describe someone who asks for things far beyond their reach or merit, often compared to building castles in the air.

This proverb is used to mock someone who makes grand claims about their family or status while simultaneously being caught in a lie or showing their true, humble (or poor) circumstances. It highlights the absurdity of trying to maintain a high-status facade with contradictory or impossible excuses.

This expression is used to describe excessive, unrealistic, or unattainable desires. Just as a mirage appears to be water but can never quench thirst, 'Gontemma's desires' refer to demands or wishes that are beyond one's means or are fundamentally impossible to fulfill.

This proverb is used to illustrate that we should not lower ourselves to the level of someone who has wronged us or behave foolishly in an attempt to get revenge. If a shoe pinches or 'bites' the foot, it is illogical to bite back a leather bag (the material source). It emphasizes maintaining one's dignity and choosing sensible reactions over impulsive, retaliatory ones.

This proverb describes a situation where there is absolutely no logical connection between a cause and an effect. It is used to mock someone who tries to link two unrelated events or when someone reacts to something that has no impact on them whatsoever.

This proverb describes a double standard or partiality. It refers to a situation where a person criticizes or sees faults in others (comparing their gaze to painful spears) while viewing their own people's similar actions or flaws as harmless, soft, or pleasant (like light popped grains).

If an unworthy person is given authority, he will misuse it and destroy the whole organization. One should exercise great caution and proper judgment, while selecting the leaders.