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226 months ago

sush (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Malayalam > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	vaalu pathu noottaandu kuzhali
Context:	a comment made by a friend
Keywords:	-

 

The answer of Susmith Sudarsanan   was rated best

Even if the dog's curved tail is put in a tube for many thousand's of years, it won't become straight

My comment:

This is a famous proverb in Malayalam, but it is incomplete. It is said that one can keep a dog's tail in a straight tube and hold it there for as long as the dog lives. But it will curl as soon as you take it out of the tube! At one or other time in our lives, most of us probably heard this expression either from our parents, school teachers or others. This phenomenal world of names and forms is also like a dog's tail: its nature is to curl!

My references:

Like a dog’s tail, which will never straighten out, the mind will not
change, no matter how many things are tried. Like a dog’s tail, it (mind) cannot be straightened; it will not listen to
what I tell it.

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