The skunk rat can get as fat and plump as he pleases. If his whole hind leg costs one anini, I still will not buy it.
More Igbo Proverbs:
The same rain that drenches the slave also drenches the slave driver.Igbo
If a baby crawls up to me and pinches me, I will get on my knees and pinch him back.
Igbo
God swats flies for an animal that has no tail.
Igbo
A person who happens by a neighbor's house at dinner time, and is invited to join the meal, does not swallow such large morsels as to break the string of pearls around his neck.
Igbo
A travelled child knows better than the old man who sits at home.
Igbo
A snake that swallows his friend will have a tail sticking out of his mouth.
Igbo