The dying person cannot wait for the shroud to be woven.
More Malagasy Proverbs:
Idleness moves so slowly that it will be overtaken by misery.Malagasy
Crows bewail the dead sheep, and then eat them.
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One can't give a grasshopper to a child if one has not caught it yet.
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As long as the mouse keeps still you can be sure that the cat stays on guard.
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Do not treat your loved one like a swinging door: you are fond of it but you push it back and forth.
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Be like the mouth and the hand: when the hand is hurt the mouth blows on it, when the mouth is hurt the hand rubs it.
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