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Hausa Proverbs
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74 Kworria ta bi kworria, en ta bi akoshi sai ta mutu.
The calabash follows the calabash, when it follows the wooden basin it gets broken.
Don't meddle with anything which is outside your sphere.
75 Mutum ba shi shigga mahauta shi ji'n tsoro'n jinni.
A man does not enter a slaughter house if he fears blood.
76 Mutum da bunu a gatto ba shi gudumowa gobarra.
- A man with grass on his gatto does not help (to put out) a conflagration.
77 Waja'n suka'n doki ba waja'n suka'n jirigi ba.
- A horse at full speed is a very different thing to a boat at full speed, i.e., you cannot compare the two.
78 Mi ya gamma kifi da kaska?
- What will bring a fish and a tick together
- Meaning as in 77.
79 Aboki'n gammi'n maddi, gāri'n tamba.
- Maddi, a paste made from the fruit of the dynnia tree and very black.
- Tamba, a herb used for seasoning. It is cultivated, and when made into a paste is also very black.
- The two mixed together make a drink.
- Where you find the one you find the other.
- Birds of a feather flock together.
80 Mugu ya san makwanta'n mugu.
- Evil knows the sleeping place of evil.
