If you dip your arm into the picklepot let it be up to the elbow.
More Malawian Proverbs:
A diplomat should be yielding and supple as a creeper that can be bent but not broken.Malawian
One little arrow does not kill a serpent.
Malawian
The teeth sometimes bite the tongue.
Malawian
The body is killed by the mouth.
Malawian
The smallest pepper is hottest.
Malawian
Low is the mountain, high the expectations.
Malawian