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Restless feet may walk into a snake pit.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

You can't measure a snake until it's dead.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about measure

Marriage is a snake to slip into your handbag.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about marriage

Until the snake is dead do not drop the stick.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Where there is a frog, the snake is not far away.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A lizard can't be a snake even without its limbs.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The venemous snake cannot be seen in the Savannah.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A lazy man's farm is the breeding ground for snakes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man

If you tie a frog on the leg a snake will follow you.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

It takes a season for a snake to change into its new skin.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about season, change

The eye of a snake is big but no one can put is finger on it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If all snakes live together in one place who would approach them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

He who takes a light to find a snake should start at his own feet.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about light

Even when a snake doesn't bit, do not put your finger in it's mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

He who doesn't know how a snake smells shouldn't walk into the forest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When the snake is in the house, one need not discuss the matter at length.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about need, home, house

If you can bear the hissing of a snake, don't complain when you are bitten.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Once bitten by a snake you feel suspicious even when you see a piece of rope.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When the head of a snake is cut off, the rest of his body is an ordinary rope.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about body, heads

A hungry man will thrust his fingers into a snake's hole in search of a grasshopper.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about man