Tsumo

Kudada kwavari pasi / kukumbira vari mugomo mvura

Shona Definition

Kungave kudada kana vapfumi vachikumbira zvinhu kuvarombo nokuti zvinoratidza kuvasvora nokuvaseka pamusana peurombo hwavo.

For the rich to come begging from the poor is arrogance, since it amounts to belittling and laughing at them for their poverty.

“Used to rebuke the well-off who make demands on those who have far less.”

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This is a variant of

For people living up on the rocky hillside to beg hearth-stones from those down on the plain is sheer presumption.