_A._ Ashes fly back in the face of him who throws them. _E._ Curses come home to roost. _A._ If the boy says he wants to tie the water with a string, ask him whether he means the water in the pot or the water in the lagoon. _E._ Answer a fool according to his folly. _A._ Cowries are men. _E._ Money makes the man. _A._ Cocoanut is not good for bird to eat. _E._ Sour grapes. _A._ He runs away from the sword and hides himself in the scabbard. _E._ Out of the frying-pan into the fire. _A._ A fool of Ika and an idiot of Iluka meet together to make friends. _E._ Birds of a feather flock together. _A._ The ground-pig [bandicoot] said: "I do not feel so angry with the man who killed me as with the man who dashed me on the ground afterward." _E._ Adding insult to injury. _A._ Quick loving a woman means quick not loving a woman. _E._ Married in haste we repent at leisure. _A._ Three elders cannot all fail to pronounce the word _ekulu_ [an antelope]: one may say _ekúlu_, another _ekulú_, but the third will say _ekulu_. _E._ In a multitude of counselors there is safety. _A._ If the stomach is not strong, do not eat cockroaches. _E._ Milk for babes. _A._ No one should draw water from the spring in order to supply the river. _E._ Robbing Peter to pay Paul. _A._ The elephant makes a dust and the buffalo makes a dust, but the dust of the buffalo is lost in the dust of the elephant. _E._ _Duo cum faciunt idem non est idem._ _A._ Ear, hear the other before you decide. _E._ _Audi alteram partem._