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Shona Definition
Kana munhu ava pakati penhamo anogona kuita chinhu chaanga asingatarisirwi kuti angaite.
English Translation
Hunger on its own is enough to make a person eat the animal of his own totem. Once hardship bites hard enough, a man will break what he holds most inviolable and act in ways nobody, himself included, ever pictured.
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This is a variant of
Zhara inodyisa mutupoHunger will drive a person to eat the flesh of his own clan totem.