Friday, October 7, 2022
Jamaican Proverbs (213 Proverbs)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Ebery day a fishing-day, but no ebery day fe ketch fish.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Godamighty mek man straight, a rum mek him can't 'tan' up.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- It' better fi lose yu timedan yu character.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Nanny-goat neber ?cratch him back till him see wall.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Peppa bu'n hot, but ih good fi curry.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Them short fe singer when dem put peacock in a choir.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When crab walk too much, 'im lose 'im claw.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Ackee lub fat, ocra lub salt
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Cockroach nuh business inna fowl fight.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Ebery day debil help tief, one day god help watchman.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Haad iyaz pick'ni bu'n a sun hot.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Learn fe dance at home before you go abroad.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Nebber mek you sail too big fe you ship.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Plantain ripe, can't green again.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Tideh fi mi, tomorrow fi yu.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When herring mauger him bone show.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- All kind of fish eat man, only shark get blame.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Cow non dead him wi shak him tail
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Empty bag cyaa stan' up.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Han' go, paki come.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Lickle bit a ram goat have beard an' big dull noh have nun.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Neva si, come si.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Play wid puppy, Puppy lick yu mouth.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- T'ief no love fi si t'ief carry long bag.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- When Jackass back strong, dem overload 'im hamper.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Alligator lay egg, but 'im noh fowl.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Crab'n choke puppy.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Empty barrel mek de mos' noise.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Han'some face and good luck don' trabble de same pass.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Lilly axe can cut down big tree.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- New broom sweep clean, but de ole broom know de corner.
(Jamaican Proverb)
- Prayer from de mout' alone is no prayer.
(Jamaican Proverb)
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