Learn a West Indian Proverb This Weekend!

What sweet in gout mouth sour in he bambam (Too much of a good thing can be bad)

Chicken merry, hawk deh near (In the midst of merriment danger is lurking)

Fowl that doh hear shoo will hear bap (Who don’t hear will feel)

Crab walk too much, im lose im claw (Overdoing things will cause breakage)

- “I consider them to be expressive and beautiful in a way that is so Caribbean”: Abeni blogs about West Indian proverbs.