The Anaang (also spelled Annang) is a cultural and ethnic group native to "South South" geopolitical zone in Nigeria. It is also known as Western Ibibio, is part of the Ibibio-Efik dialect cluster. It is the native language of the Anaang people of Nigeria.
Time cannot obliterate the memory of a village case.
Stones are cheap; the problem is weight.
Do not play with a snake offspring as if it could never bite.
Two cocks do not crow from the same roof.
If you play with a dog, do not complain when it tears your clothes.
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A child who refuses the mother's advice does not live long.
If you play with a dog, do not complain when it tears your clothes.
The story of former wealth does not satisfy man.
The tortoise complains of rain whereas it has only wetted its feet.
A lender does not hate part payment.
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A word shoots up like the blade of grass.
When a man has no one to play with he plays with his enemy.
When you hold the ground you cannot fall.
In a true heart, there is no fear.
If the cockroach refuses to stay in its hole, the chicken refuses to stay hungry.
A soup that tastes good by licking must taste better by eating.
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When a baby grows, the crying changes.
A wandering child cannot eat his mother's food when it is hot.
Praise has killed the antelope.
A chicken has no bad luck in the morning.
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A chicken that gets a sprained ankle is abandoned by its own mother.
A word shoots up like the blade of grass.
When bitterness preceeds sweetness, the sweetness becomes sweeter.
While a bush fowl is being roasted, a chicken considers its own fate.
When a man has no one to play with he plays with his enemy.
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A razor may be sharper than an axe, but it cannot cut wood.
Infancy teeth are not for chewing nuts.
What has escaped from the leopard, still remains for the leopard.
A mother refuses to go far lest her baby cries.
Pepper has a beautiful face with an ugly temper.
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A river less vast than an ocean gets a bridge.
If you speak with a cunning mouth, I listen with a cunning ear.
A mother that has lost many children by death, hates the idea of her child taking a nap.
A person does not lay on one side throughout the sleep.
After a fish has matured, it ventures into the deep.
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A rat that gnaws pepper is desperate for food.
A person does not lay on one side throughout the sleep.
When a leopard limps, a hare dares to demand for payment of a debt.
When blood appears, it is apt to run.
Drop by drop rains fills a pot.
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There is no discrimination in the forest of the dead.
An animal that has just escaped from a trap fears a bent stick.
Unity is strength, separation weakness.
Generosity is wealth.
A debtor's wife speaks the voice of her husband.
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A thorn does not pierce a rat.
When you are rich, relation exists; if you are poor, relations desist.
A man who puts his hand into the bee's hive gets stung by the bees.
Medicine does not depend on the incantations of the sorcerer.
A man who lives in two homes cannot catch a thief.❖
While a dead tree is expected to collapse, a live one unexpectedly snaps.
A lover is unmindful of any charcoal on the body.❖
