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A monkey left behind laughs at the others tail.

Proverbs and old sayings

A drunken donkey will not remember the monkeys bite.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan

The monkey is a good boxer, but his hands are short.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about good, good luck

I don't sow ground nuts when the monkey is watching.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you want to eat a monkey, don't look in its eyes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about eyes

When a monkey doesn't get a banana, he eats chillies.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

On the day a monkey dies, all the trees are slippery.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about day

The rope that hangs a monkey, hangs a baboon as well.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Do not dispose of the monkey's tail before he is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

There is always a winner even in a monkey's beauty contest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about beauty

The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about day

Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about teaching, man

If you cure a monkey of its tooth ache its your maize farm that suffers.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When an elephant becomes as small as a monkey, it ceases to be an elephant.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

No matter how tight a monkey's trousers are, there is always space for his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about univers

When the mother monkey leaves her baby to fall, one must not blame the dried branch.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about fall, mother

It's not the monkey on top that make a tree fall but it's the work and effort of numerous small insects and ants.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about insects, fall, work

More hideous than a monkey.

Proverbs and old sayings

The monkey in his mother's eye is a gazelle.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

The monkey looks into the mirror and sees a gazelle.

Proverbs and old sayings