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Shona Definition
Murombo haakwanisi kuita chinhu chinodaidza mari kana kuti zvimwe zvinhu zvaasina iye. Nokudaro, chinhu chisingatarisirwi pamurombo kuti atorane netsvingudze sokuti haazowani muripo wemhosva huru yakadai.
English Translation
Someone who owns nothing has no base from which to build anything up, just as a man without a waistband has nothing to hold up a loin cloth. Nothing demanding money or resources can reasonably be expected of him.
Cultural Context
“A poor man quotes it in self-pity when he is faulted for not pulling his weight in some undertaking.”
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