కుక్కను తెచ్చి అందలంలో కూర్చోబెడితే, కుచ్చులన్నీ తెగగొరికిందట

This proverb is used to describe someone who consistently brings back useless things or unreliable information. It implies that you cannot expect anything of value or quality from a person who lacks the capacity or merit to provide it, much like how a dog will only scavenge for bones.

'Tis the nature of the beast.

This proverb describes a situation where an individual barely has enough to meet their own basic requirements, making it impossible for them to help others. It is used to point out that one cannot be charitable when their own essential needs are not yet fulfilled.

This expression is used to describe a person who goes on a great or sacred journey (or takes on a significant opportunity) but returns with something worthless or engages in something trivial and disgraceful. It highlights the irony of wasting a valuable opportunity or a holy pilgrimage by focusing on or bringing back something foul.

This expression is used to describe a situation where someone performs a task that is vastly different in scale or nature from what was actually requested, usually due to a lack of understanding or excessive, misdirected effort. It highlights the mismatch between the instruction and the execution.

This proverb is used to describe a person who cannot change their inherent base nature or low-minded habits, no matter how much wealth, status, or dignity is bestowed upon them. It highlights that external elevation does not change internal character.

This proverb is used to describe someone who goes on a long, arduous journey or undertakes a significant task, only to return with something trivial, worthless, or useless. It highlights the irony of putting in great effort for a meaningless result.

Great labour and small results.

This expression is used to describe a situation where something beautiful, valuable, or sophisticated is given to someone who cannot appreciate its worth or is completely unsuitable for it. It highlights the mismatch between an elegant ornament and an unworthy recipient, often used to mock unnecessary or tasteless ornamentation.

This expression refers to a situation where a secret or a private matter, despite attempts to keep it contained or 'tucked in,' spreads rapidly and becomes public knowledge. It is used to describe how certain information or rumors are impossible to hide once they start leaking out.

This proverb implies that no matter how much you try to elevate someone's status or provide them with luxury, their innate nature or low character will eventually reveal itself. It is used to describe situations where a person reverts to their base habits despite being given a position of dignity.

Mean persons although exalted will not give up their low habits. Crooked by nature is never made straight by education. " Set a frog on a golden stool, and off it hops again into the pool." (German.)*

This proverb is used to criticize someone who spends excessively on unnecessary or inappropriate luxuries for a trivial or unworthy task. It highlights the mismatch between an inferior subject and a grand ornament.