ghore bech kar sona - sleep like you sold horses (sleep soundly)

(nak) chana chabwana -to make someone chew chickpeas with their nose (to give someone a (very hard) time)

munh tor ke jawab dena - to break someone's face in answer (to give a fitting/equal reply)

unt ki munh men zira - cumin in a camel's mouth (peanuts, trifling, nothing, in the Zia to Carter sense)

dudh men mengni dalna - to put scat in the milk (poisoning the well (in rhetoric))

bandar kya jane adrak ka swad - What does a monkey know of ginger's taste? (ie. pearls before swine)

Nach na jane aangan terha - Can't dance? Crooked stage. (A poor workman blames his tools)

दो-एक गाँव में भोज हुआ और कुत्ते की जान हड़बड़ी में ही चली गई।

My attempt at a translation:

'There were feasts in two villages, and in their running back and forth, the dogs died.'

(A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.)

And how's this for a parenthetical aside:

(The fullest account of Persian lexicography in English remains Henry Blochmann’s 1868 article)

... with a hyperlink to a working version: https://archive.org/details/contributionstop00blocuoft. There can't be many fields where the fullest account in English remains an 1868 article.

0: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/proverbs/

Love that saying.