10 Trinidad Sayings and their meaning
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- I am trying a different format to explore deeper into our cultural differences and what makes us unique.
I made a Part 2 on this topic, view that video here: • Trinidad Sayings and t...
I will be posting these talking videos from time to time to cover what I cannot in my travel vlogs, in this case, language and saying specific to Trinidad and Tobago.
Each country has its own proverbs to live by, wise words to follow, and that is what I bring to you with this video. I was having a conversation with some Jamaican friends and I used a Trini saying and needed to explain myself as they did not get the context. I thought it would make a good topic for a video.
10 Trinidad sayings and their meaning:
1) Better belly buss, than good food waste
2) All skin teeth eh laugh
3) Dog doh make cat
4) Monkey know which tree to climb
5) Take front, before front take yuh
6) Cyah make love on hungry belly
7) Yuh didn’t invite me to the wedding, doh invite me to the funeral
8) De higher monkey climb, de more he show his backside
9) All bread have cheese
10) Yuh cyah play mas and fraid powder
Hope you guys enjoy the video, please let me know if to continue this format.
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Even for us Trinis, this was enjoyable; even educational..
thanks for watching and the support!
Ikr
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How yuh know suh
so true
looks like you left out my parents’ favourite:
“who doh hear does feel”
Oh i know that one to well!
Oh gosh that's all I heard when I was little
That was all I heard whenever I did something wrong
Tru🤣
Lol
Left Trinidad 50 years ago, and still recognize most of these colourful sayings. Nice work explaining.
Great video. Some I remember: (1) You playing dead to ketch cobo alive. (2)You beating track for monkey to run. (3) Peter pay for Paul, Paul pay for all. (4) Corbeau doh eat sponge cake. (5)The candle cost more than the funeral. (6) Same ole khaki pants. (7) What don't kill does fatten. (8) He bread buttered. (9) When yuh neighbour house on fire, wet yuh own. (10)Trouble made the monkey eat pepper. (11) One day, one day congotay. (12) Spinning top in mud. (13) You can't put cat to watch butter. (14) Guava season: When times are so hard, you have to eat guava to survive. (15) Bun yuh own pot. (Become independent) (16) De mark buss. (17) Rum and Roti politics. (18) What is game for children is death for crapaud.
excellent additions, i will have to do a part 3 soon. Thanks for watching!
I never heard about quiet snake does bite hard
Robin Khalawan hmmm like still rivers run deep
Robin Khalawan yuh old and dotish
No. 2 should be "You cutting track for gouti to run"
I love and remember these sayings from home 🇹🇹
Thanks for watching!
Laugh and cry does live in the same house
Electra Trinidad 🇹🇹 MY FAVOURITE
Why are Trinis just so awesome? Love it. Thank your for your video my friend. Peace and infinite blessings to you😁
thanks for watching and really appreciate the kind thoughts!
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The am a Trini.
Ur want to light fire an can't handle the heat ,,,, meaning ,,, she want it but saying it hurting she belly
@@nickeyboybaldeo8754 ,Ah like that one lol.
I love this! I live in Toronto. My birth mother is from Trinidad and I'm learning about the IndoCaribbean culture and experience. Thanks for the video, Yofoot.
Thanks so much for the great comment, i am so happy that it was of some help to you. I do plan to do more of this type of video, so look out for more!!
I loved this video. I am a trini. I was smiling from ear to ear start to finish.
Patrice Richards so glad you liked it!!
I'm a Trini to
'Goat doh make sheep' ..
also, Mango don't fall far from de Zaboka tree
Laugh and cry does live in de same house
Two manrat cyah live in de same hole
Love it! My wife is Jamaican so we can relate to the miscommunication 😂 this is useful too because we have Trinidadian friends
glad to be of help!
I can hear the Trinidadian speak every day,love 💕 to hear them pronounce certain words,
Thanks!
Sounds like you need to take a trip down to T&T 😊
@@trini2DBone134 O yes, I due for a vacation again,I have been visiting Trinidad & Tobago since 1998.
I left Trinidad many moons ago it was good to see this video. Many of these saying i did not know so it was good to be informed of them.
Thanks for watching!!!
I left Trinidad when I was young but I returned to live and work for a few years in my late 20’s. I remember hearing the sayings, many times colleagues and family members would have to explain it to me
Thanks for sharing!
I enjoy hearing different sayings. Thanks, great video!
Harmin Vlogs thanks! Will do more, I checked out our channel, great stuff, sub for sure
I love how he explained this🔥
Thanks!
@@YohanPartap your welcome you did good🔥
My moms favorite was " monkey knows what tree to climb ! " I was born in Maraval Trinidad, but raised in USA ... My friends thought we spoke a different language .... HaHaHaHa !!!
Yes the older heads will know these more. thanks for watching and sharing!
Thank you. Greetings from Limerick city Ireland
Thanks for watching!
This is so useful, thank you so much! I love all of your videos! New subbie right here 🙋♀
Thanks for subbing!
Grew up right on Calcutta Street in Federation Park 🇹🇹 thank you for video 😊
Thanks for watching!
Love it!!!
Glad you do!
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What about give jack he jacket.
Great video, my mother used-2-tell-me, "if yuh doh have something, do without"
Love that!
Here is one more: "Cockroach has no right/business in fowl dance"
That's a jamaican slang not trini
Errol Michael Phillips my favorite of all time even with my kids😁
Whatt 😂😂😂
@@auchiethomas2560 well then it's just a slang that both cultures share. Because everything he said there I know of as Trini slang. I'm a Trini so I would know
@@auchiethomas2560 It should be "Cockroach have no place in fowl party"
I loved it!!!! More please!
Love the video, thanks it was very enjoyable. Brings back memories
Thanks!
Love this video. Very clear explanations. Do more of these please!
thanks for watching and i am working on some new content like this
"Time longer than twine" - Bad things all come to an end. also "Friend does carry you but don't bring you back" - be careful who your friends are. "What you ain't meet ain't pass you yet" - trouble is ahead
Maybe a part 3! Thanks for the suggestions and for watching!
Great video. Love the explanation , of some of the things people say in Trinidad. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it!
Loved d video, didnt now some of these. How about, ' dey feel they shitting icecream"!!!! I find that one so funny!
I know that one, but have to manage the censors, it has alot of Trini words and saying that are rated adult so have to be careful.
Great love it some of them I don't know well done need to hear some more
Thanks for watching!
Thank you. I love learning new things. I have a dear friend from Trinidad and sometimes get lost.
Hope it helps!!!
What good for the ganda good for goose.. who don't hear will feel etc. Some of these I heard already I can't remember atm. Good vid.😊
share them when you do remember them! Thanks for the support!
I did put a like to your video and also I did subscribe ! . You taught me some words that this Trini lady did not know ! Good job and thank you !!!
thanks so much for watching!!!!
Hey, I think that you did an excellent job. I enjoyed this video and honestly, it was quiet educational and helpful. Really nice!
Thanks so much for watching the words of support!
I enjoyed this video. I hope you do more of them.
Thanks for watching, will work on some more soon.
I enjoyed this video. I also thought you explained the proverbs quite well. I think you should continue to build upon what you began.
I just subscribed. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thank you so much for the feedback, i plan to do more, so look out for it!
"What (is) sweet in goat mouth, does sour in he (his) bottom"
"Do so don't like so"
Great! will have to do a part 3 for sure now.thanks for watching!
Yes I agree with that one.
When yuh in good house bad house does call yuh
Crapaud smoke yuh pipe!
Or What doh kill does fatten.
yes i am heard those also! thanks for sharing
I heard those also
Loved the video. Subscribed from San'do. Blessings!
Thanks for watching my fellow trini!!!!!!!!!!!
Well done, most Trini eh know some of these sayings.
I Love it!!! really good.. didn't know some of those phrases..
Thanks for watching, some are old so no suprise you might not know all.
love, love love this omg
Thanks!!!!
thank you very much. I enjoyed this. Its the first time I am hearing some of these slangs and I am trini. bu am onlyin my 20's so. and i did not grow up with my granny or hear my mother use them much
That's why its important to we continue to use these terms. keep it alive.
Very well put.
Thanks!
Cyan make love on hungry belly is a Jamaican saying also. The monkey one also.
Yes, we share most of these in the English speaking Caribbean
"Who doh hear does feel" - My mom used to say that a lot.
Oh i remember that to well.
Mys too
Wow I really enjoyed this.
Glad you enjoyed it
And finally: "If you have cocoa in the sun, look out for rain"
and "Two man-rat cyar live in one hole"
Thanks man, please if you have more keep it coming!
It is I who must thank you. You have a positive and enlightening approach to matters pertaining to T&T. There is a lot more to explore like "Temple in the sea", the fact that Hindus worship at the Catholic La Divina Pastora Church in Siparia, the bold and intriguing story behind the establishment of Point Lisas. Dr. Williams actually outwitted Amoco on that one. There is also the story of Dr. Lennox Pawan discovering the link between rabies and the vampire bat with very modest research facilities at St. Clair during the 1930's. Good luck to you!
Another one.it takes a fool to know a fool
That was amazing
Loved it!!!
Thanks!!
Love love love this 👍
Thanks so much for watching!!!
Thanks for sharing your culture
thanks for watching!
I just watched two videos.
1 . On Caribbean names abd meaning
2. 10 Trinidadian sayings.
Both videos were amazing, educative and factually put together. I enjoyed it immensely. Many thanks and keep doing these. Caribbean people of birth or heritage needs to know their history .
Thanks so much!
I actually enjoyed this. I will definitely use them.
Working on it! Thanks for watching!
You foget kakahole 🤣🤣🤣😂
let just say i choose to leave out some fo our more "colourful" words.
He said 'ten'.
LMAO i haven't heard this lovely saying in years.😂😂😂
lol lol we does rell use that
Trust 😂😂😂
Do more like these please... I love it...so when we say what we hadda say ppl wouldn't be so lost.
"Every moldy bread have it stinken cheese😂"
i plan too, thanks for watching!
Hey bruh, as the son of Grenadian parents I understand all these sayings as they used them. I wasn't aware that you used them in Trinidad!!! New subscriber here
Yes we share curtain saying and culture with our Caribbean brothers.
Great Job Yohan!
Thanks!
Thank you. This was a fun video.
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Well done!!! Keep it coming :)
Thanks for watching!
This was awesome I'm a TRINI and I learn something today ! My grandma would say "Every moldy bread have they rancid cheese " also "You don't have to call me ah dog just show me de chain"
I like the dog one!! really have to do more. thanks for watching!!
Love it "what eye eh see heart doh grieve
I heard that one before! thanks for watching!
Hi ah like the accent but really ah have not heard a lot of those slangs before so ty for enlightening me. Have a blessed day dear! 😂😁
Thanks for watching!!
I am trinidadian, now living in the us. I knew the meaning of most if those sayings.
Nice!, Thanks for watching!
Thank you🇹🇹😍🎉💯
You're welcome 😊
Thanks for share
Amaro Ortiz thanks for watching!
Really good ones!!
Good sayings to know.
Yes they are, thanks for watching!
We say all of that in Grenada. LOL. But we right next to each other. The most alike.
Thanks for watching my fellow Caribbean peps!
Our very colorful carribbean culture.. Lets continue to embrace it, Love it and share it. Lovely.😄
Great explanation
Glad you liked it
I love the trini sing-song accent! :)
Thanks!
yes thats right my jamaican friend always laugh when i say good morning,,,
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
@@YohanPartap youre most welcome sir
Very well explained... foreigners take note. 👍
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful
Thanks!
👍i enjoyed this video it's educational
Glad you enjoyed it
As a Trini....this was so much fun!!!!
Thanks for watching!
Very funny. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
I'm a Trini and didn't know some of these sayings. Thanks for this.
Also, I was kinda anticipating 'leh we go an lime'
SO glad you like it! I have other videos on Trini words and slang that you should check out!
@@YohanPartap lime is a slang for lets go hangout,,,not an idiom
great video!
Thanks for the visit
Fellow trini here but haven't heard some of these before..maybe because I left Trinidad long time ago. Great video and thanks for reminding me how hilarious we trinis are..lol..
Thanks for watching. Don't feel bad, alot of these are not in used at the moment, hence the video trying to keep them alive.
You are welcome...
Love my Trinie ppl lol love this video
Thanks for watching!!
Thanks for this most entertaining and informative video. I found you while searching for the old Calypso "Monkey know what tree to climb" . You are one good looking dude! Are you in movies? lol.
Cool, thanks!
'free ting aint nice and nice ting aint free'
Nice one!
Dis real make meh miss home boy, ay ay 😂
Thanks for watching!!!!!!!!!
Excellent 🇹🇹🔥🔥🔥
Thanks!
Great video.
Thanks!!!!
I actually learned some of these and im trinidadian 😂
Glad i can help!
Nice and informative! Can you post a link to Part 2, I don't see it in the descriptions?
Thanks for watching and yes i will.
Jamaicans couldn't understand that last one, seriously?! I'd never heard that one before watching the video and as an American with Jamaican and Haitian parents, I understood it right away.
Yes, even younger trini's don't know this saying.
Nice!!!!!
Thanks!
There is a favourite saying that is so so true and that is do so eh like so simply means when you do wrong to someone you become more mad when someone wrong you nuff said
Yes I know this one
gopaul luck, ain't seepaul luck.
Good one!
Lol well this is a new one, i was born in Trinidad grew up there enough to remember i have never ever heard those sorts of sayings in Trinidad, considering i still have friends there and i dont ever here them using slangs, perhaps its just me, but i enjoy your video, can you do others with other Caribbean islands
Most of these are older and fallen out of use. But i have heard them from time to time. Thanks for watching!
:) lol I like these
TRINIDADDDDDDD MY HOMEEEEE
number 10 my favorite saying
its my favorite also!
Love Trinidad
Thanks for the love!!!!
So fun! What about: If lizard meat was good meat, they wouldn't be running about in de yard. Meaning: if someone is so great, why they out there unattached or unclaimed?
Really nice one! thanks for watching!
loooool, i grew up hearing my mom say "every bread have he cheese". this was very entertaining
Nice! Thanks for watching!