కొండకు ఒక వెంట్రుక ముడి వేస్తే, వస్తే కొండే వస్తుంది, పోతే వెంట్రుకే పోతుంది.

kondaku oka ventruka mudi veste, vaste konde vastundi, pote ventruke potundi.

Translation

If you tie a hair to a mountain, the mountain will come or the hair only go. The possibility of great gain with the risk of little loss.

Meaning

This expression is used to describe a high-reward, low-risk situation. It encourages taking a chance where the potential gain is massive and the potential loss is negligible or insignificant.

Related Phrases

Like pulling a hair out of butter

This expression is used to describe a task or process that is performed with extreme ease, smoothness, or without any resistance. It is often used when someone handles a difficult situation effortlessly or when a resolution is reached very cleanly.

If it becomes cheap, it comes to the marketplace.

This proverb is used to describe a situation where a person is only willing to do something or offer their services when it requires very little effort or when the risk is extremely low. It is often used to mock someone who avoids responsibility or hard work but suddenly appears when things become easy or free.

What does it matter which river the hair I have shed flows into?

This proverb is used to describe a sense of total detachment or indifference towards something that is already lost, useless, or no longer belongs to oneself. It suggests that once a person has discarded something or suffered a loss, the subsequent fate of that object is of no consequence to them.

Like trying to climb up by holding onto a hair.

This expression is used to describe a situation where someone is making a desperate or futile effort to save themselves or achieve something using a very weak and unreliable support. It highlights the impossibility and precariousness of an action.

A woman with plenty of hair can style it into any bun she likes.

This proverb is used to describe a situation where a person who has the necessary resources, wealth, or power has the freedom to do anything or make any choice. Just as long hair allows for many hairstyles, abundance provides many options.

If a hair turns grey in the hair parting, she claims to be a virtuous woman.

This proverb is used to mock someone who suddenly pretends to be extremely righteous, pious, or disciplined only after they have grown old or have lost the opportunity to be otherwise. It highlights hypocrisy or a late-life transformation into a 'holier-than-thou' persona.

Like taking a hair out of butter.

This expression is used to describe a task that is performed with extreme ease, smoothness, and without any resistance or obstacles. It can also refer to resolving a delicate situation very tactfully and cleanly.

Said of a very easy business. How easily a hair gets into butter ! (Gorman.)*

Like removing a hair from butter

This expression is used to describe a task performed with extreme ease, smoothness, and without causing any disturbance or damage. It signifies a delicate operation executed so perfectly that the surroundings remain unaffected, often used to describe resolving a complex issue effortlessly.

Like picking out hairs while eating rice sitting on a woollen blanket.

This expression describes a situation where someone knowingly enters a difficult or messy environment and then complains about the inevitable problems that come with it. It is used to point out the hypocrisy or futility of worrying about minor inconveniences when you have chosen a path where those problems are unavoidable.

Like tying a hair to the sky

This expression is used to describe an impossible or extremely difficult task that requires extraordinary precision or is practically unattainable. It often refers to attempting something that has no solid foundation or trying to achieve a goal through highly improbable means.