“Mhembwe rudzi inozvara mwana ane kazhumu.”

When people say it

• In August 2017 columnist Maynard Manyowa quoted it on Bulawayo24 after Grace Mugabe's trouble with police abroad. He used it with other sayings to argue that the Mugabe children behaved like their parents. Bulawayo24
• At a church braai in Luton, an uncle watched a teenager crack the same dry joke his late father used to make. He said it to the woman next to him and she laughed.