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Shona Definition
Munhu anogara pamukuru anoda kuzviratidza somukuruwo uye kana murombo akagara pakati pavapfumi anobva atozvitorawo somupfumi.
English Translation
Nobody is without an appetite for rank: sit a man beside a chief and he carries himself as a chief, put a poor man among the wealthy and he takes himself for one of them, though he has nothing in common with them.
Cultural Context
“Said of someone who puts on the airs of the company he finds himself in.”
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This is a variant of
Ruzambu kugara munyemba / rwoti ndava nyembawoA weed growing in the middle of a bean patch supposes that it too is a bean. Being found among better things does not change what one actually is.