Igbos come show your proverbs skills

Udo dili unu!!

Sorry for missing in action for some time now, but I'm back.

Ify, Echeboy, mortiple, kashif etc you guys always gladden my heart.

Onye too nti n'ala onuru uria danda
if you pay serious attention and listen hard enough you will hear the cry of the ants

o gini choro ime ebe a?
threadia no si na ala ala,nke gini jiri mee?

@Topic,Kama mgbo ga eri isi m,ya buru okpu m.
instead of my head to vanish,let my cap go !

   

Dalu Youngies.
ihe mmadu na ahu mgbe ufodu sef . . . ebiri mmiri d too much mana e mere elu e mere ala
mmiri e nweghi ike iri azu.
the ocean/river can never drown the fish 

Esu a zoro ukwu ebeghi akwa ma nwata zoro esu ukwu na-ebe akwa
The millipede that was stepped on did not cry but the child that stepped on it is crying

Afo e kweghi ukwu zuru ike nke onu jiri kwe aka noro otu ebe.
The legs wont rest because of the stomach,the hands wont rest because of the mouth

@Topic,ijiji nti ike na eso ozu ala.
the stubborn fly gets buried with the corpse

 Nkita na e weghi odu,chi ya na achuru ya ijiji.
a dog without tail,his gods drives away flies for him.

O gini na eme ebea.anyi mara na Nairaland a dighikwa otu odi na mbu but yet,ihe mere some of us ka jikwa abia ebea bu maka threads like these.the bond and love we have come to share,bikonuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu,unu lota now,at least maka threadia anyi. 

@Topic,ita mu aru n'isi na asoghi uburu,agaghim aso nsi ma m tawa gi na otele
if you bite me on my head not considering my brain,i would definitely bite back at your bums disregarding the faeces there likewise.

ndi okenye sikwa na "ijiji na ebe mmadu na nti e weghi ihe o ga eme nti,o bejuru,kwujuru ya lawa"  no translankowa

kam tryia obere 
he who is blinking at one bigger than him is only staring at him
d thing siri ike ,Echelon,Youngies na Mortiple  have to tinye mouth.
@Topic,Asi na "mgbe agadi nwanyi si na o naghi ata anu,mara na eze gwuru ya na onu".
when an old woman says she don't eat meat,it means shes toothless.

Whoever that is winking at someone greater than him is only admiring the person

Dalu mortiple

but marakwa na

I kwado iko ede abughikwa otu ihe na iko ede
Preparing coco-yams for planting does not mean that they are already planted

Ka isina maya n'ala mmiri ga rie unere, emechaa ugbo ya ga ese n'elu
No matter how deep you dive into water to eat banana, the skin will surface.

Umu nna,

E chere m na 'winking' bu itabi anya mobu, icha n'iku? Technically speaking, aka m na-egekwa nti ka m mara ma odi ntunye ozo m ga ahu banyere nkea.

Mana, A choghikwa m ka odi ka kashif O na-ana unu aka agwo o!

@Kashif
You raised an important point. "Winking" is friendly and should not be translated as "iro anya". Frowning is the closest English word I can think of now for "iro anya"

BTW
Kedu ihe bu i na mmadu aka agwo?

lol
biko gini bu "ukwu digi ka ogo m"?
a norom odu na komputer for a long time and somebody abia n'ulo anyi so i stood up and strechted myself,ya sim na "ukwu di gi ka ogom nwanyi" o putara na ike gwurum ka o putara na m noro odu otu ebe for a long time?

Ify you are right when you say that frowning has to do with the whole face but it's as closest to "iro anya" as I can get. Blinking is definitely "itabi anya"

Daalu for the explanations Kashif.
Another ajuju for you: What is Kashif? Is it your name or an acronym? I have my reasons for asking.

chaiiii i dey really miss for this topic

@topic

fa si na ogori mara obi di'ya fa ga si na o'ogwu ko gworo

it means when a beautiful woman knows and gets d heart of her husband,people will say she used juju to get d man

Otu nwoke dara n'oria wee jee na nke dibia ka O gwoo ya. Mgbe dibia ahu gbachara afa wee hu na oria nwoke ahu bu ihe O n'enweghi ike igwo, O si nwoke ahu na O ga-agwo ya mana O nwere ihe ya bu nwoke ga-emeriri tupu ya agwoo ya. Mgbe nwoke ahu juru ya ihe obu, dibia ahu si ya na O ga awunye nnu n'oke osimiri tutu rue mgbe nnu turu oke osimiri! Nwoke ahu wee mara na onodu ahu bu ihe tara akpu nke ukwu.

Mgbe nwoke ahu choro ila, O were nzu kaa akara ano n'ala n'ihu mbara dibia, wee si dibia ahu ya biko nedoro ya akara ahu anya. Oburu na mmiri zowe, ya biko chikpuoro ya ha n'ulo ka mmiri ghara ima ha. Ha abuo wee kwekorita ubochi nwoke ahu ga-abiaghachi azu ma oburu na nnu atuo osimiri.

Ubochi a kara aka wee rue, nwoke ahu wee gawa na be dibia ahu. Mgbe O rutere, dibia wee juo ya ma nnu atuola osimiri? Nwoke ahu wee si dibia ahu ya ewekwala iwe, ya kedu maka akara ano ahu O kara n'ala oge ikpeazu O biara? Dibia ahu wee meghee onu lewe nwoke ahu maka na oke mmiri zoro n'abali ubochi ahu. Mgbe dibia ahu nwetara onwe ya, O juo nwoke ahu ihe mere O ji chee na ya g'enwe ike chibaa akara O kara n'ala? Nwoke ahu wee si dibia ahu na O buru na ya bu dibia enweghi ike I chiba akara ya kara n'ala, kedu ka ya bu mmadu nkiti g'eji nwee ike ime ka nnu tuo oke osimiri?

Umu nna, unu ahula otu ihu agadi siri nyuo mma nko?

A man took ill and visited a native doctor for treatment/consultation. After the ritualistic invocation, the native doctor discovered he would not be able to cure the illness so he told the patient that he could only cure his illness on one condition. The condition being that the man should pour enough salt into the ocean to taste! The patient then knew that was an impossible task.

When the man was about going, he took a piece of chalk and drew four lines on the ground outside the doctor's door and told the doctor to kindly take care of those marks for him. If it intends raining, the doctor should please take them inside the house so that they are not beaten by the rain. They agreed on a date and the patient left.

On the agreed date, the patient got back and the doctor asked him if the ocean has become tasty? In response, the patient asked the native doctor the whereabout of those four marks. The doctor was dumbfounded because he had no answer. When he got himself, he querried the possibility of moving marks on the ground. To this, the patient told the him that if he, the native doctore could not move those marks, how did he think that an ordinary man could pour enough salt into the ocean to make it taste?

You see how they cancelled out each other? Iron sharpneth iron!