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Jamaican proverbs / Old wisdom, still talking

KAI SEH…

One likkle sentence can carry a whole heap of sense. Browse the sayings, test what you remember and find one to call somebody over.

A multigenerational Jamaican group talking together outside a brown family home in the late afternoon.
PROVERB OF THE DAY
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Jamaican proverbs

Find the saying yuh looking for.

Old sayings. Everyday wisdom. Search by what life throwing at yuh.

Pick one and test somebody

“Yuh know how the rest go?”

The fastest way to find out whether a proverb still lives is to start it and wait. Somebody usually finishes it.