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Word: nandi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...never rains but it pours," to one of their own: "It leaks at the gunwale, it leaks in the keel." From the Biblical injunction, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," it is only a short and negotiable step to an old saying of the Nandi tribe in East Africa: "A goat's hide buys a goat's hide and a gourd a gourd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Language: The Wild Flowers of Thought | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

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