Tsumo
“Ane benzi ndeane rake, kudzana unopururudza.”
In English
When you know the bad traits of someone you will not be offended when they do bad things.
When people say it
- A Shona short story published online in 2014 uses the proverb. A man's relatives say it to shrug off his strange behaviour, since they already know what he is like. Vanoda Zvinhu
- A man complained to his wife that her brother had turned up late and loud to yet another family gathering. Her father said it, since the rest of the family had stopped minding years ago.