Shoulders cannot go above the head.
The eating of a singer is to be sharp on the mouth.
A womb is a bridge.
He who has a ………..fights with the door
Your friend’s heart is a wilderness.
The mouth put the head in trouble.
kneeling you eat with the elders, keep standing you have nothing.
An arm follows another arm.
Trees that are together brush against each other.
To touch a person in the eye.
To throw away like a stick.
A sharp knife.
A cow does not find its horns heavy.
To graze amongst calves.
The belt and the kilt.
To eat your peer’s faeces.
To enter a small basket that has no exit.
To hit on the head.
To return a hand.
That which does not drip.
A bat.
To bear children as the tortoise does.
To have rotten intestines.
Water flows in its channel.
To pass judgment after the manner of the Libonda people.
To buy favour.
To make a person flee his village or country.
To shift kalabo to another site.
A person in a village cannot run fast.
A woman is a thick bush.
To go around a mwangalala bush.
Whoever handles meat must have blood on his fingers.
An Old’s mouth stinks, yet nothing false issues from it.
A mouth is worn-out canoe.
Something spoken in a far-off place cannot fail to get people to transmit it.
A bone may be white, yet, it once had meat on it.
A crowd cheats a fool.
The moon is not day-light, many people are not your mother’s children.
In tranquility lies danger.
What kills a visitor does not kill a local man.
Where there are two, it is good.
It is sharp, it boils and reaches the deepest parts of the river.
The first cow drinks clean water.
A child who cannot be told let us wait and see.
A dog has been bending for too long, yet its agricultural yield is never seen.
To accuse lingomba (a kind of bird) for the death of a snake that died a long time ago.
To visit a sick person is to be feeding from his home.
He who uses a small paddle cannot go far; a person who has no witness cannot win a case.
When a lion eats a bad person and it is not killed, tomorrow it will eat a good person
A reed-mat may be old, yet it had killed a lot of barbell fish.
A treacherous person is a relative of a witch.
If you cannot serve in the active forces join the carrier corps
The day the jackal dies, it won’t find a musa tree under which to take shade
A broken canoe will not buy a cow
An orphan learns through the admonitions given to a child that has it’s mother
To get hold of a barbel fish by the tail
Those who paddle normally land, those who speak normally come to a stop
An old person is like a big mukona tree
a blue lie or something that can never be done and is way out of the possible