| १ | अक्काबाईचा फेरा | Visitation of poverty. Misfortune. |
| २ | अक्कल हुशारीनें | With all one’s eyes about one. |
| ३ | अकलेचा खंदक | A wiseacre. A pretender of wisdom. |
| ४ | अंग टाकणें | To grow thin. To be emaciated. |
| ५ | अंग धरणें | To experience the painful stiffness of cold. |
| ६ | अंग मोडून येणें | To have the shivering preliminary to fever. |
| ७ | अंगाची लाही होणें | To be furious with rage. |
| ८ | अंगाचे चकदे काढणें | To lascerate the skin off. (Metaphorically), to revile, to abuse. |
| ९ | अंगाचा तिळपापड होणें | To boil with anger. |
| १० | अंगाचें पाणी करणें | To exert one’s self to the utmost. |
| ११ | अंगावर शेकणें | To cause the ruin of. To result into loss. |
| १२ | अंगीं मिरच्या लागणें | To be irritated. |
| १३ | तळपायाची आग मस्तकास जाणें. | To be excited by violent anger. |
| १४ | अंगवळणी पडणें | To become habitual. |
| १५ | अठरा विश्वे दारिद्र्य | Extreme poverty |
| १६ | अठरा धान्यांचें कोडबोळें | A mixture of various things. |
| १७ | अडणीवरचा शंख | A fool who has been raised, (or who has risen), to a high place by the influence of a great or rich man. |
| १८ | अडकित्यांत सांपडणें | To fall into a dilemma. To be caught in a trap. |
| १९ | एकाद्याचीं अंडींपिलीं ठाऊक असणें | To know a man’s ins and outs. |
| २० | आढ्याला पाय लावून निजणें | To lie at ease with a feeling of security. |
| २१ | अंत पहाणें | To put to a severe test. To try or test to the utmost. |
| २२ | अंतर्यामीचें दुःख अंतर्यामास ठाऊक | The heart best knows its own bitterness. |
| २३ | अति तेथें माती | Extremes are ever bad. |
| २४ | अंधळ्यापुढें नाच बहिऱ्यापुढें गायन | Casting pearls before swine. |
| २५ | अंधळ्याबहिऱ्यांची गांठ | Playing at cross purposes. |
| २६ | अन्नसत्रीं जेवणें आणि मिरपूड मागणे | To dine upon charity and call out for sauce. |
| २७ | एखाद्याच्या अन्नांत माती कालविणें | To take away the means of livelihood of. |
| २८ | अन्नास मोताद | Extremely indigent. Wanting the bare necessaries of life |
| २९ | अन्नास लावणें | To supply the means of livelihood to. |
| ३० | उलट्या अंबारींत बसणें | To go begging. |
| ३१ | दोन बोटें स्वर्ग उरणे | To be elated with foolish pride. |
| ३२ | अल्लाची गाय | An extremely inoffensive man. |
| ३३ | अळवावरचें पाणी | Any thing transient. |
| ३४ | आकाशाची कुऱ्हाड | A visitation of God’s anger. |
| ३५ | आकाशपाताळाचा भेद | A difference as great as that between the poles. |
| ३६ | आगीत उडी टाकणें | To rush recklessly into a peril. |
| ३७ | आगींत तेल ओतणें | To add fuel to the fire |
| ३८ | आनंद ब्रह्मांडांत न मावणें | To be transported with joy. |
| ३९ | इमानास जागणें | To remain true and hones. To prove true to the salt. |
| ४० | इन मीन सव्वातीन | Very few. |
| ४१ | उखळ पांढरें होणें | To become affluent. |
| ४२ | उखाणा घालणें | To propose a riddle. |
| ४३ | उडत बातमी | A flying report. |
| ४४ | उदक सोडणें. | To relinquish. |
| ४५ | उपट सूळ घे खांद्यावर | To thrust oneself unnecessarily and foolishly into danger. To put oneself knowingly into a difficult and awkward position. |
| ४६ | उपड्या घड्यावर पाणी | A fruitless endeavour. |
| ४७ | उपराठ्या काळजाचा | A madcap. |
| ४८ | उंबराचें फूल | A person rarely seen. |
| ४९ | उंबरें फोडून केंबरें काढणें | Much ado about nothing. |
| ५० | उंबऱ्याची साल काढणें | To visit a man frequently, to tease a man by frequent visits. |
| ५१ | उभा जाळणें | To persecute. |
| ५२ | उंटावरून शेळ्या हाकणें, किं० वळणें | To be careless and sluggish in doing any work, not to devote oneself heart and soul to one’s work. |
| ५३ | ऊर दडपणें | To be astounded. |
| ५४ | ऊर फाटणें | To be amazed. |
| ५५ | उरीं फुटणें | To be knocked up. |
| ५६ | एक ना धड, भाराभर चिंध्या | Jack of all trades but master of none. |
| ५७ | एका माळेचे मणी | Birds of the same feather. |
| ५८ | एरंडाचें गुऱ्हाळ | Useless, meaningless, tiresome account or description. |
| ५९ | कच्छपीं लागणें | To follow obsequiously. |
| ६० | कण्या खाऊन मिशांस तूप लावणें | To pinch the belly to reach the height of fashion. |
| ६१ | भ्रमाचा भोपळा फुटणें | To be undeceived. |
| ६२ | बारा पिंपळावरचा मुंजा | A vagrant |
| ६३ | नवकोट नारायण | A multimillionaire. |
| ६४ | निर्वाणीचा बाण | The last resources |
| ६५ | पंत्तिप्रपंच | Partiality. |
| ६६ | द्राविडी प्राणायाम | A roundabout or circuitous procedure. |
| ६७ | ताटाखालचें मांजर | A tool, or a creature. |
| ६८ | तिसरा पाय | Unbecoming or ridiculous eagerness. |
| ६९ | कर्मधर्मसंयोग | An accidental or fortuitous coincidence. |
| ७० | कळसूत्री बाहुलें | A puppet. |
| ७१ | शरपंजरीं पडणें | To die by inches. |
| ७२ | पांचावर धारण बसणें | To be nonplussed through terror. To sink through utter despondency. |
| ७३ | चुलींतून बैलांत | From the frying pan into the fire. |
| ७४ | चवाट्यावर आणणें | To give improper publicity to. |
| ७५ | चक्री गुंग होणें | To be nonplussed. |
| ७६ | एकाद्याच्या घोड्यापुढें धावणें | To be obsequious. |
| ७७ | एकाद्याची घटका घातलेली असणें | To be on the point of death. |
| ७८ | एकाद्याला गणेश टोपी घालणें | To deceive and defraud a man. |
| ७९ | जिवाला लावून घेणें | To lay to heart. |
| ८० | खाऊन पिऊन सुखी | Well-off. Well-to-do. |
| ८१ | शिवराळ | Foul-inouthed. Foul-spoken. |
| ८२ | एकाद्याच्या नाकांत काड्या सारणें | To irritate him. To vex him. |
| ८३ | त्याच्या पायावर भोंवरा आहे | He is a vagrant. |
| ८४ | पोटांत पाय शिरणें | To be dejected. |
| ८५ | बोटावर नाचविणें | To have under the thumb. |
| ८६ | एकाद्याची मूठ दाबणें | To bribe a man. |
| ८७ | दोन हाताचे चार हात होणें | To be married. |
| ८८ | एकाद्यास अंतर देणें | To forsake a man. |
| ८९ | इरेस चढणें | To be roused or stimulated to do one’s best. |
| ९० | उच्छाद देणें | To tease or harass. |
| ९१ | ओम फस होणें | To end in smoke. |
| ९२ | खडा टाकून पहाणें | To sound a man. |
| ९३ | एकाद्याच्या नांवानें खडे फोडणें | To vituperate or to revile him. |
| ९४ | पदरास खार लागणें | To incur a loss. |
| ९५ | एखाद्याला गंडा घालणें | To deceive. |
| ९६ | गुलदस्तांत ठेवणें | To keep concealed. |
| ९७ | एकाद्याची घटका भरणें | To be at death’s door. |
| ९८ | एखाद्याचें स्तोम माजविणें | To exalt a man to the seventh Heaven. |
| ९९ | डोळ्यावर कातडें ओढणें | To connive at a thing. |
| १०० | बारा वाजविणें | To make short work of. |
| १०१ | पदरांत घालणें | To hand over to. To consign to. |
| १०२ | पिकलें पान | A done-up man. |
| १०३ | पोबारा किं० पोवबारा करणें | To run away. To abscond. |
| १०४ | फळास येणें | To be fruitful. |
| १०५ | वाटाण्याच्या अक्षता लावणें | Not to comply with a man’s request. |
| १०६ | अंगावरून वारें जाणें | To be palsied. |
| १०७ | समुद्रांत सुई शोधणें | To look for a needle in a bundle of hay. |
| १०८ | पैशा पासरी | Dogcheap. |
| १०९ | पुढच्यास ठेच मागचा शहाणा | By other men’s faults wise men correct their own. |
| ११० | फाटक्या अंगाचा | A bag of bones. |
| १११ | बारा बंदरचें पाणी प्यालेला | A knave. |
| ११२ | बोके संन्यासी | A wolf in a sheep’s clothing. |
| ११३ | भुकेलें गुरूं वळचण ओढतें | Hunger needs no law. |
| ११४ | मस्करीची कुसकरी होते | What begins in play may end in a fray. |
| ११५ | मेटाकुटीस येणें | To be quite exhausted through overwork. |
| ११६ | लष्करच्या भाकरी भाजणें | To do a toilsome work which is destined to get no reward. |
| ११७ | वड्याचें तेल वांग्यावर | Punishing one man for the fault of another. Visiting anger against one upon another. |
| ११८ | वाघाची खोड काढूं नये | Rouse not the sleeping lion. |
| ११९ | सहा महिन्यांची जांभई | A suit in chancery. |
| १२० | उजवा हात | Right-hand man. |
| १२१ | बाळूची भिंत | A rope of sand. |
| १२२ | आंवळ्याएवढें पूज्य | A round O. Nothing |
| १२३ | मनांत मांडे खाणें | To build castles in the air. |
| १२४ | मनगटावर तेल घालणें | To scold for idleness. |
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