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Hausa Proverbs
26 Da ayi jiranka ga abinchi, gara akayi ka jira'n abinchi.
- Better that you should be made to wait for food than that food should be made to wait for you.
27 En chi dadi da yawa en wohalla, gara en chi babu dadi wonda ni ke koshi.
- Better to eat something not tasty which is enough, than to eat something tasty which upsets me.
- Enough is as good as a feast.
28 Mai tambaya ba shi bata, sai dei asheerinsa ka tonoa.
- He who asks does not go wrong, but his secret is dug up.
- The first part of this proverb is very commonly used by itself with the meaning, "Always ask if you are in doubt."
- The meaning, as it stands, is—before you ask for information be quite sure that it will not give away your object, i.e. if you wish to conceal it.
29 Rami'n mugunta a ginnashi gajere.
- Dig the hole of evil shallow.
30 Kango'n Allah maiwuya'n tuk-yéwa.
- The place which Allah has made a kango is hard to fill.
- Kango, any place which has at one time been inhabited, but is now deserted.
- An unlucky man will always be unlucky.
