నేర్పుగలమ్మ నేతితో అతిరసాలు వండితే, ఓర్పుగలమ్మ ఒడిలో కట్టుకుని పోయిందట.

This proverb emphasizes that patience and endurance are the most important qualities for success and leadership. It suggests that while many may have power, only those who can remain calm and patient under pressure are truly capable of handling great responsibilities or achieving lasting dominance.

This proverb is used to mock people who have little to offer or possess very little, yet display excessive pride, vanity, or arrogance. It highlights the irony of someone with no status or wealth acting more pretentious than those who actually possess them.

This proverb describes a situation where an extremely lazy or slow person takes forever to perform a simple task, while someone else, in an ironic display of 'efficiency' or unnecessary haste, treats a worthless item as something valuable. It is used to mock people who waste effort on useless things or to highlight the absurdity of two different types of incompetent behavior.

This proverb is used to describe a situation where an inexperienced person tries to give advice or instructions to someone who is much more experienced and knowledgeable in that specific field. It highlights the irony and absurdity of someone with lesser experience trying to teach a veteran.

Refers to outdated, repetitive, or trivial advice and stories that lack practical relevance in modern times. It is often used to describe someone rambling about the past or giving unsolicited, old-fashioned counsel.

This proverb is used to describe a lazy person who makes silly or improbable excuses to avoid work. It mockingly refers to someone who blames minor, irrelevant things for their inability or unwillingness to perform physical labor.

This proverb is used to describe a situation where someone who is seemingly well-off or resourceful seeks help from someone who has much less than them. It highlights irony, poor management, or the hypocrisy of those who possess plenty but still rely on others.

This proverb highlights that while skill and hard work are important for creation, patience and persistence are often what reap the final rewards. It is used to describe situations where someone else takes the benefit of another person's hard work because the latter lacked the patience or foresight to secure the results.

Atirasam is a sweet cake made of rice meal and syrup and fried, or rather boiled, in ghi. A cool trick.

This is a sarcastic expression used to dismiss someone's failure by blaming their inherent bad luck or incompetence. It suggests that when an unskilled or 'unlucky' person attempts something, even if they do the action correctly, the outcome will inevitably be a failure due to external factors or fate. It is often used to mock excuses made for poor performance.

This proverb highlights human behavior regarding wealth. A truly wealthy person stays calm and doesn't show off, whereas a person with very little wealth constantly fusses over it and displays it to everyone to feel important.