Jamaican Ole time sayings

Jot down some sayings that you heard growing up here. If you know it, also give the explanation.


Let me start.

I heard this one and I want to know if anybody found it to be true.

"If you want to scare off bad dawg, just shine a bright flashlight in their eyes"

Now tell me how in the world will bad dawg run from light?  Are they afraid of their shadow or something?

"When Ashes cold Dawg will Lie down"

If there is no threat people will take advantage.

"Time is longer than rope"

This means that bad times can't last forever.

Cock Mouth Kill Cock

The things that a person says will turn around and judge them

Likkle but tallawah

Seemingly insignificant but strong, beautiful and not to be underestimated

I will explain these later

1. Duppy know who fi frighten
2. Kiss me neck back
3. Ku yah
4. Kaka Faat
5. seet deh now
6. Who can't hear must feel
7. Chicken Merry Hawk deh near
8. What gone bad a mawning cyah come good ah evening
9. Nuh sankey nuh sing suh
10. Not everything weh good fi eat good fi talk
11. Who the cap fit let them wear it
12. Don't hang your hat farther than you can reach it
13. You can run but you cant hide
14. Long run short ketch
15. Weh eye nuh si heart nuh leap
16. When fox can't catch the grape dem seh  it sour
17. You can't pl ant corn and expect peas
18. You reap what you sow
19. The higher the monkey climb the more his ass expose
20. If everyday yuh carry bucket to well, one day the bottom ah guh drop out
21. Wah sweet yuh gwine sour yuh
22. If anybody ever see mi dying trial
23. Hard aise pickeny nyam rock stone
24. Dawg wid too many owner go hungry
25. Dawg ah guh nyam yuh supper
26. Fir deh ah muss muss tail and him tink a cool breeze
27. Idle Jackass follow cane trash to pound
28. Today fimi, but tomorrow might bi fiyuh
29. Everythig is Everything?
30. Wah deh pan alligator back, soon guh ah him belly
31. If you nuh guh inna fowl rouse, him cyah shit pan you
32. If you lie down with mangy dawg, yuh gwine rise with fleas
33. Never see come see
34. You haffi creep before you can walk
35. If you want goo you nose affi run
36. Water more than flour
37. See an blind hear and deaf
38. Bird cyah fly pan one wing
39. Tom may drunk but him nuh fool
40. I may have been born in the day, but it was not yesterday
41. One one cocoa full basket
42. you a poppy show
43. Puss and dawg nuh have the same luck
44. high seat kill ms Thomas puss
45. A nuh the first day leaf guh a water botttom it rotten
46. Wah sweet nanny goat ah guh run im belly
47. But Jesus, Tek di case an gimme the pillow
48. Every hoe have a stick ah bush
49. If you walk too fast you gwin hafi walk two time
50. What you don't know older than you
51. Ah nuh one time monkey wah wife
52. Same knife that stick goat will stick sheep too
53. You have to take bad things make laugh
54. Dis caryy guh bring come bring misery
55. Tek what you get till you get waht you want.
56. MI affi suck salt through wooden spoon
57. When a tief tief from a tief God laugh
58. When it rains while the sun shiines -the devila nd him wife a fight over salt mackeral
59. Empty bag cyah stand up
60. If you spit in the sky it will fall in your face
61. Yuh expcting flood or you take your measurement in water
62. Old broom knows the corners best
63. Every dawg hame them day
64. You nyam chicken bauxide