same knife stick sheep, stick goat
Jamaican Creole edit
Etymology edit
Literally, "the same knife which sticks the sheep, also sticks the goat."
Pronunciation edit
Proverb edit
same knife stick sheep, stick goat
- what goes around, comes around
- [Andrea Campbell (2012) Jamaican Sayings - Character[1] (in English), →ISBN, page 41: ““121. Same knife stick sheep stick goat
The same knife that sticks a sheep will stick a goat
Whatever someone does to another he can also do to you; beware of such people! […] ”]”
- Mi see se yuh loud up Peter bad bout di one likkle mistake weh 'im mek, but memba mi seh same knife stick sheep, stick goat.
- I noticed that you really came down hard on Peter for that tiny mistake he made. Mark my words: what goes around, comes around.
- [Andrea Campbell (2012) Jamaican Sayings - Character[1] (in English), →ISBN, page 41: ““121. Same knife stick sheep stick goat