Proverb #657

“Ọnụ otele mara mma iji fụọ opi mana ọ bụzị onye ga-etinye ọnụ ya?”

- Ajụjụ ndị Igbo?

Contributed By Nwoko Nogzi.

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Proverb #656

“Kwọ kwọ kwọ ka ọkụkọ ji eriju afọ.”

Contributed By Nwoko Nogzi.

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Proverb #655

“Ọkrọ adịghị etokarị onye kụrụ ya.”

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Proverb #654

“Ana egbu achara achara ana-eto.”

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Proverb #648

“Egwu adịghị kwanụ atụ afọ obuta ụzụ. Mana nkwụcha abụghị kwa ụjọ.”

Editorial

More complex speaking. This is the orator's craft or something a good writer might do. See Proverb #645 . Nogzi  weaves on an allied idea to keep company with another one which is also a proverb. One phrase and another one with an opposite idea. This juxtaposition of ideas may be used to argue a position in diplomatic exchanges. Mana nwkụcha abụghị kwa ụjọ = But to stand still and keep one's peace is not cowardice or fear.

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Proverb #647

“Ụkwa ruo oge ya ọdaa, mana onye ndidi na-eri azụ ukpo.”

Editorial

This is some complex speaking. Readers or keen perusing of our proverbs will have noticed that Ụkwa ruo oge ya ọdaa is already a proverb in its own right and exists here on the roll. See Proverb #13 . What Nogzi has done is to add on another allied idea which is a proverb in its own right too. Onye ndidi na-eri azụ ukpo: is the the proverb classical that expresses the English equivalent about patient dogs and bones i.e The patient dog eats the fat bone; Ngozi's one ? The patient fisher (or simply patient man) eats the well rounded large fish.

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Proverb #646

“Onye buru Chi ya ụzọ gbawa ọgbagbuo onwe ya n'ọsọ”

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Proverb #645

“Egwu adịghị atụkwanụ afo o buru ụzọ.”

Editorial

There is a variant which goes in the by now familiar pattern of 'Ajụjụ ndị Igbo' : Egwu ọ na-atụ afọ o ji buru ụzọ.
That variant was given to to the project by Reverend Eugene Isiodu.

Contributed By Nwoko Ngọzị.

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