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නැති තැන | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | The absent place | Behind one's back | without one's knowledge; secretly or deceitfully | null |
යන්ට ඇරලා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Opened to go | Behind one's back: | without one's knowledge; secretly or deceitfully | null |
පස්ස ගහනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Hitting the buttocks/back | Hang back | o show unwillingness to advance or come forward | null |
කේන්ති යස්සනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Causing anger | Put one's back up | to annoy someone | null |
අහක බලා සිටින කල | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | The time when looking aside | When one's back is turned | someone is not present or not paying attention | null |
ළඟ නැති තැන | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Place not near | When one's back is turned | someone is not present or not paying attention | null |
ගෝස්තරේ හොයා දෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Finding the grazing spot | Bring home the bacon | to earn money for a family to live on | null |
ඇඟ බේරා ගන්නවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Saving the body | Save one's bacon | to help someone avoid getting into trouble | null |
ගන්ට දෙයක් නැති | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Nothing to take | A bad egg | a person who is bad, dishonest, or unreliable; a good-for-nothing | null |
ගතයුත්තකට නැති | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Not for a thing worth taking | A bad egg | a person who is bad, dishonest, or unreliable; a good-for-nothing | null |
අනිත් ජාතියේ ලැබෙන ණය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Debts received of the other type | Bad debts | a debt, or debt, that is not likely to be paid: | null |
වාසි අවාසි බලනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Looking at profit and loss | Strike a balance | to determine the exact difference, if any, between the two sides of an account or set of accounts | null |
හා හා පුරා පටන් ගන්නවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Starting with "Ha Ha" | Open the ball | To begin operations; to set things in motion | null |
පොට වරදවා ගන්නවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Getting the strand/thread wrong | Bark up the wrong tree | trying to do something in a way that will not work | null |
හපනවාට වැඩිය බුරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Barking more than biting | His bark is worse than his bite | they are not as unpleasant or frightening as they seem | null |
ගජ සණ්ඩුවක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | An elephant fight | A battle royal | a fiercely contested fight or dispute. | null |
යමර පොරයක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A Yama (Death God) fight | A battle royal | a fiercely contested fight or dispute. | null |
මැදි වෙලා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Having become middle | At bay | Cornered, in distress | null |
හඳට බුරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Barking at the moon | Bay the moon | To make appeals in vain | null |
කමක් නැ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Just to say "it doesn't matter" | Be it so | used to say that it is necessary to accept the situation as it exists | null |
වන්නාටය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | It is for the sake of being | Be it so | used to say that it is necessary to accept the situation as it exists | null |
හොඳයි | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Good | Be it so | used to say that it is necessary to accept the situation as it exists | null |
කම්මුතු වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming finished | Be no more | Pass away | null |
නාම ශේෂෝප ගත වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Remaining only as a name | Be no more | Cease to exist | null |
කථා ශේෂ වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Story remaining | Be no more | Cease to exist | null |
හාරා බැලිය හැකි | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Can dig and look | Bear investigation | requires scrutiny or attention | null |
හිතේ කහටක් දරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Bearing a stain in the mind | Bear malice | to feel ill will | null |
වෛරයක් බැඳගන්නවා. | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Tying a hatred | Bear a grudge | maintain a feeling of ill will or resentment toward someone. | null |
යකුන් නටාපු පිට්ටනියක් වාගේ | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][උපමා] | Like a ground where devils danced | Like a bear-garden | a place or scene of tumult and disorder | null |
කිං හන්ති කං හන්ති දොඩනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Babbling "Kin hanthi" | Beat about the bush | to avoid the point at issue | null |
හෙමබත් වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming "Hemabath" | Be dead beat | an idle, feckless, or disreputable person. | null |
මල් යහන | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Flower bed | Bed of roses | a situation of comfort or ease | null |
සුඛ ශය්යාව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Comfort sleep/bed | Bed of roses | a situation of comfort or ease | null |
වර්ණනාතික්රාන්ත වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Exceeding description | Beggar description | impossible to describe it. | null |
හිඟන්න්නන්ට මොන උණු බත් ද? | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රශ්න] | What hot rice for beggars? | Beggars cannot be choosers | people with no other options must be content with what is offered. | null |
යටි කූට්ටුවෙන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | From the under-stick | Behind the scenes | done secretly rather than publicly | null |
යල් පැනපු | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Season-jumped | Behind the times | not aware of or using the latest ideas or techniques | null |
නිහීන ක්රියාවක් කරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Doing a mean act | Hit below the belt | very insulting and unfair | null |
යටි බඩට ගහනවා. | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Hitting the lower belly | Hit below the belt | very insulting and unfair | null |
සැකයේ වාසිය දෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Giving the profit of the doubt | Give the benetit of the doubt | to believe something good about someone, rather than something bad, when you have the possibility of doing either | null |
හිත හදාගන | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Having made the mind | Bent upon | fully committed to achieving a goal | null |
ඇතිවෙන කල් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Until becoming enough | To the top of one's bent | to (or at) the limit of one's capacity or ability | null |
බඩ පුරා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Stomach full | To the top of one's bent | to (or at) the limit of one's capacity or ability | null |
කොහෙද යන්නෙ මල්ලෙ පොල් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Stomach full | Beside the mark or point | it is not relevant to the subject that you are discussing | null |
අන්දුන් කුන්දුන් වෙලා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | "Where are you going?" "Coconuts in bag" | Beside oneself | overwhelmed | null |
ගෙදර එක්කෙනා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Having become confused | Better half | one's spouse | null |
මඟ රැඳුණ අද තෝ නසි ගෙට ගිය අඹුව නසී | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | The one at home | Between Scylla and Charybdis | in a predicament in which avoidance of either of two dangers means exposure to the other | null |
ලකුණු තිබෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Stay on road-you die; Go home-wife dies | Bid fair to | to seem probable | null |
ලොකු ලොක්කෙක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A big big-person | A big-wig | one of high position or importance within a group | null |
කුණු හබ්බ | [පුද්ගලික] | Rotten words | Billingsgate | obscene or abusive language | null |
මරියකඩේ භාෂාව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | The language of Maradana Market | Billingsgate | obscene or abusive language | null |
වැල්ලේ භාෂාව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Language of the slums | Billingsgate | obscene or abusive language | null |
එක වල්ලේ පොල් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Coconuts of the same bunch | Birds of a feather | people with the same characteristics, ideas, interests, etc | null |
ළඟ තිබෙන කපුටුමහ දුර තිබෙන මොණරමහට වඛ හොඳය. | [උපදේශ][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | The crow nearby is better than the peacock far away | A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. | it is better to keep something you have than to try to get something better and risk having nothing at all | null |
දුවන මුවන් දැක නොදමන් නෙළූ පලා | [කියමන්] | Seeing running deer, do not throw away gathered greens | *A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush | it is better to keep something you have than to try to get something better and risk having nothing at all | null |
නුපුරදු දීගෙට වඩා දන්න කනවැන්දුම හොඳයි | [ආප්තෝපදේශ] | The known widowhood is better than the unfamiliar marriage | A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush | it is better to keep something you have than to try to get something better and risk having nothing at all | null |
කණ කොකා වගේ | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][උපමා] | Like the blind heron | Bird of ill omen | a person who brings bad news | null |
නිලං කොබෙයියා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Blue/Green Imperial Pigeon | Bird of passage | a transient person or one who roams about | null |
දඹුලුත් වැඳගෙන තල ගොයිත් මරාගෙන එනවා. | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Worshiping Dambulla and killing the iguana (on the way back) | Kill two birds with one stone | to accomplish two things with one action | null |
හෙළුව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Nakedness | Birthday suit | a state of total nakedness, as at birth | null |
හිතේ හැටියට ටිකක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A little according to the mind | A bit of one's mind | Frank and severe criticism | null |
පොළවට පස් වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming soil to the earth | Bite the dust | to fail completely or cease to exist | null |
පොළොවේ පස කනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Eating the earth's soil | Bite the dust | to fail completely or cease to exist | null |
තුච්ඡ කර දමනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Making contemptible | Bite one's head off | to respond harshly and rudely (to) | null |
මන්තර ශාස්ත්රය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Mantra science | Black art | witchcraft | null |
සුදු පිටේ කළු අකුරෙන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | In black letters on a white back | In black and white | in print or writing | null |
කුඩු කෑ විත්තිය කියනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Confessing the guilt of eating powder/bran | *Levy blackmail | to extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation | null |
අප්පගේ පුතා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Father's son | A chip of the old block | someone who resembles their parent in character or appearance | null |
ගහේ පොල් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Tree's coconuts | A chip of the old block | someone who resembles their parent in character or appearance | null |
ලේ උණුකරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Boling the blood | Make one's blood boil | to cause to be angry or indignant | null |
ඇඟේ මාළු නටනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Fish dancing in the body | Make one's blood boil | to cause to be angry or indignant | null |
ලෙයට ඇදීම සිරිතයි | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Pulling to the blood is the custom | Blood is thicker than water | family duties and loyalty outweigh other ties | null |
ලෙයට ලේ ඇදෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Blood pulls to blood | Blood is thicker than water | family duties and loyalty outweigh other ties | null |
ලේ උරා බොන්නා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Blood sucker | Blood-sucker | a person or thing that preys upon another person, especially by extorting money | null |
අමු අමුවේ මිනිමැරීම | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Killing humans while raw | Cold-blooded murder | a murder that is deliberate, premeditated, and carried out with a complete lack of emotion, compassion, or remorse | null |
ආරෙට ගොහින් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Gone to the lineage/herd | In the blood | as a natural or inherited characteristic or talent | null |
මුහුණ ගැවුණු දැළි | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Soot smeared on the face | Blot on one's escutcheon | a stain on one's honour | null |
ජණ භය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | People fear | Blue funk | a state of great terror or loss of nerve | null |
කනස්සල්ලෙන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | With worry | In the blues | feelings of melancholy, sadness, or depression | null |
බැලු බැල්මට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | At the looked look | At the first blush | without previous knowledge or adequate consideration | null |
එක වළේ වැටී | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Fallen in one pit | In the same boat | in the same unfavorable situation | null |
අවසර ද? | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Is there permission? | Make bold to | to presume or venture | null |
අහසෙන් කඩා වැටුණ මෙන් | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][උපමා] | Like fallen from the sky | A bolt from the blue | a sudden, unexpected, and usually unwelcome event | null |
වැහි නැති හෙනක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A thunderbolt without rain | *A bolt from the blue | a sudden, unexpected, and usually unwelcome event | null |
ගබේට මුල | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Root to the interior | Bone of contention | the grounds or subject of a dispute | null |
ඒ මදිවට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | To the insufficiency of that | To boot | in addition | null |
අනුන්ගේ රත්තරන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Others' gold | Borrowed plumes or borrowed feathers | A showy display that is not truly one's own | null |
පලිප්පු දමා කියනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Saying with "palippu" (garnish) | Draw the long bow | to exaggerate in telling something | null |
අන්දුන් කුන්දුන් වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming confused/dazed | Be bowled over | surprised greatly | null |
එක වළේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | In one pit | In the same box | state of being together | null |
ඉතා අලුත් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Very new | Brand new | absolutely new | null |
අලුත් ම අලුත් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Newest of new | Brand new | absolutely new | null |
එක හුස්මට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | In one breath | All in a breath | quickly and without hesitation | null |
ගල් ගැහෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Stones hitting | Take away one's breath | to make one as if breathless with astonishment | null |
තුණ්ණිම්භූත වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming silent/stunned | Take away one's breath | to make one as if breathless with astonishment | null |
කනට කොඳුරා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Whispering to the ear | Under one's breath | in a quiet voice or whisper | null |
අවසාන හුස්ම දක්වා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Until the final breath | With one's last breath | to do something in the very moment of dying, just before one's life ends | null |
අන්තිම සුස්ම හෙළනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Dropping the last breath | Breathe one's last | to die or be finished or defeated | null |
ආරේ ගතිය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Nature of the lineage | What is bred in the bone | something that is deeply ingrained, firmly established, and unlikely to change | null |
හෙන ගහන්නා වාගේ බැණ වදිනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Scolding like lightning striking | Come down like a ton of bricks | to speak very angrily to someone because they have done something wrong or to punish them severel | null |
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