Proverb #151

“Ụkpara anya gwugwugwu, n'afọ nnụnụ kpawom!” 

- ilu Oriakụ, Phoebe Isiodu (Nee Nwachukwu), Onye Ngwa alụ na Mbieri (Mama m).


The grasshopper with flared pupils and a glint
in the eye and a 'don't care attitude' ends up
a bird's meal ...

Not for the faint hearted. A person that is often warned without taking heed is suddenly destroyed.

Compare this quote from Proverbs 29:1
'He that being often reproued, hardeneth his
necke, shal (sic), suddenly be destroied, and
that without remedy.'
[As I am told it appears in KJV16]

So then, those eternal Jews knew it and those eternal Igbos knew it.
But who said it first? Arrgggh!

Kpawom ! is supposed to be the sound a grasshopper makes as it passes the bird's gullet.

How mum ever made that recording? I would never know :-)

[On Her Behalf]Contributed By Kelechi Isiodu
[Variants Posted By]
Uzoma Nwaekpe, Isi ala Ngwa: Ukpara anya gwugwugwu, o ji ezuike la akpa afo ukwu nnunnu.

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