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Shona Definition
Munhu anoshaya zvinhu anowanzoti kana apiwa chinhu chingamubatsira, chinorasika kana kufa iye achisara akabata maoko.
English Translation
It is the ancestral fortune of a woman with a child that she is married and then sent away. Bad luck seems to follow the deprived: whatever help they are given is lost or dies, leaving them empty-handed once more.
Cultural Context
“Said of someone whose gains repeatedly slip from their grasp, leaving them as badly off as before.”
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