Traditional Jamaican proverb · taught in Portland
Chrobl no set laik rien.
Trouble doesn't gather like rain clouds.
Misfortune gives no warning — unlike Portland rain, you won't see it coming.
negative indicative simile
The only one of these with an open like, and it denies the comparison instead of making it; weather is the measure that trouble fails to match.
This one is taught in Portland.
The grammatical categories this description uses — clause type, mood, and the sound patterning noted where it carries the proverb — follow Unseth's framework for describing a proverb rather than only translating it.
The proverb is folk material. The description of how it is put together follows the framework in the work above; the translation and the commentary are mine.
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