Someone else's rice cake looks bigger.

Don't spread ashes on cooked rice.

Someone gets their cowshed fixed after they lost their cow.

Das ist höchste Eisenbahn. (That is the highest railroad)

Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof (I only understand trainstation)

Butter bei die Fische (Butter with the fish)

Chi dorme non piglia pesci. (Who sleeps does not catch fish)

Far d'una mosca un elefante. (To make an elephant out of a fly)

Il buongiorno si vede dal mattino. (A good day starts in the morning)

Il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio. (The wolf loses its fur but not its bad habits)

Gå over bekken etter vann (Go over the stream for water)

Døde hunder biter ikke (dead dogs don't bite)

Bedre med tørr kake enn intet å smake (Better with a dry cake than nothing to taste)

Nu breekt mijn klomp! (Now my wooden shoe has broken!)

Als het kalf verdronken is, dempt men de put (only when the calf has drowned, does one close the well)

Oude koeien uit de sloot halen (retrieving old cows from the ditch)

Een mens is geen aardappel (a human is not a potato)

Als een molen draaien (to spin like a windmill)

Sala ya kuku haitanduru tai

"The prayer of the chicken will not hurt the eagle"

Tembo wahili wannapopigana nyasi hukanyagwa

"When two elephant fights the grass is trampled"

Mchagua jembe si mkulima

"One who selects a jembe (plow) is not a farmer"

Ta ting for god fisk (To take something for good fish)

Rosinen i pølsa (Raisin in the sausage)

Frisk som en fisk (healthy as a fish)

Nød lærer naken kvinne å spinne

(Necessity teaches woman to spin)

Født med ski på beina

(Born with skis on our feet)

Den som sover synder ikke

(Those who sleep, does not sin)