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Jamaican Proverbs
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When yu go a fireside an' see food, eat half an' lef' half.
(Jamaican Proverb)
When yu go a Jackass yard, yu noh fi chat 'bout big iyaz.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Wherever there are bones, there are dogs.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Who ha' fingernail no ha' itch, and who ha' itch no ha' fingernail.
(Jamaican Proverb)
You can't prevent a bird from flying over your head, but you can prevent him from making a nest in your head.
(Jamaican Proverb)
You nebber see kicking' cow widout kickin'calf.
(Jamaican Proverb)
You nebber see pop-gun kill alligator.
(Jamaican Proverb)
When kitchen dresser tumble dung, maaga dog laugh.
(Jamaican Proverb)
When rat like fi romp 'roun' puss jaw, one diay 'im gwine en up inna puss craw.
(Jamaican Proverb)
When visitors come a wi fireside, wi mek wi pot smell nice.
(Jamaican Proverb)
When water trow weh i' cyaa pick up.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Before you married keep you' two eye open; after you married, shut one.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Daylight sho t'rough lilly keyhole.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Every man know whe' him own house de leak.
(Jamaican Proverb)
If stars were loaves, many people would sleep out.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Man noh dead, noh call 'im duppy.
(Jamaican Proverb)
No mek one donkey choke you.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Rockstone a riva battam noh know' sun hot.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Wha' noh poison, fatten.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Beggar beg from beggar him nebber get rich
(Jamaican Proverb)
De bes a field mus' hab weed.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Every mickle mek a mockle.
(Jamaican Proverb)
If you cannot dance, you will say the drumming is poor.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Man noh done cross riva, noh fi cuss alligator long mout long.
(Jamaican Proverb)
No put youself in a barrel when match box can hol you.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Sarry fi maaga dog, maaga dog tu'n 'roun' bit yu.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Wha sweet nanny-goat a go run him belly.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Blood follow vein.
(Jamaican Proverb)
De higher monkey climb de more him expose.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Feel like Gumbeh drum widout a goat-skin.
(Jamaican Proverb)
If you crape gourdy, you fin' worm-hole.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Manners mek di man.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Noh care how boar hog try fi hide under sheep wool, 'im grunt always betray 'im.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Sensa fowl no wan fedder, but him want carn.
(Jamaican Proverb)
What darg see him bark all night, ramgoat see it no trouble him.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Boastin' man brudder a de liar.
(Jamaican Proverb)
De tune you playing no de one I dancing.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Fill your basket one item at a time.
(Jamaican Proverb)
If you go a tump-a-foot dance, you must dance tump-a-foot.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Manners tek yu thru' di worl'.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Noh cup noh brok, noh coffee noh trow weh.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Some people clean a tap an' dutty underneath.
(Jamaican Proverb)
What de good a education if him got no sense?
(Jamaican Proverb)
Bucket wid hole a battam have no business a riverside.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Dem give yu basket fi carry water.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Finger stink you can't cut it trow it wey.
(Jamaican Proverb)
If you want half a bread, beg smaddy buy it, but if yu want a wan, buy it yuself.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Marriage has teeth and it bites hard.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Noh put yu cap wh? yu caang reach it.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Spit in the sky, it falls in your eye.
(Jamaican Proverb)
When ashes cole darg sleep in dey.
(Jamaican Proverb)
A greedy mek fly follow coffin go a hole.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Cap no fit you, you no tek i' up.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Di daakes' part a di night, a when diay soon light.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Fish-bone no lodge in a pickney troat alone.
(Jamaican Proverb)
If you yearry debil a come, clear de way.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Me no call you no come
(Jamaican Proverb)
One finger can't ketch louse
(Jamaican Proverb)
Ston a riva battan nuh know sun hat
(Jamaican Proverb)
When bull ole him feed a fence side.
(Jamaican Proverb)
A noh every mango got maggige.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Chicken deh merry, Hawk deh near.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Duppy knwo who fi frighten.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Frog never gargle him troat till him tas'e fresh water.
(Jamaican Proverb)
If yu cyaa tek di heat, get out a di kitchen.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Mi come here fi drink milk, mi noh come here fi count cow.
(Jamaican Proverb)
One, one cocoa full basket.
(Jamaican Proverb)
The higher the monkey climbs the more him expose.
(Jamaican Proverb)
When cockroach get in a trouble, him well glad fe fun go hide a fowl-house.
(Jamaican Proverb)
A noh siame diay leaf drop a river bottom it rotten.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Chip neber fly far from de block.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Eat fam'bly bittle but no cut fam'bly 'tory.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Fry de bigh fish fust, te lilly one after.
(Jamaican Proverb)
If yu de shit, an' si certain people/person a come; sidong inna it.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Monkey mus' know weh 'im gwine put 'im tail, before 'im order trousiz.
(Jamaican Proverb)
One-eye man a king a blind country.
(Jamaican Proverb)
The hungry belly and the full belly do not walk the same road.
(Jamaican Proverb)
When crab walk too much him los' him claw.
(Jamaican Proverb)
A pound a fret can't pay an ounce a debt.
(Jamaican Proverb)
Cockroach neber so drunk him walk a fowl yard.
(Jamaican Proverb)
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