La Licorne
JAMAICA
Useful expressions and other sayings
Question: How
are you today? Answer: In between,
or: Not too bad!
Me no tourist, me live 'ere (To avoid excessive charges)
Enjoy your last holiday in Jamaica: The end! (Reference to the excessive crime occurrence)
You trouble me
a lot, man!
Soon come
Me move when me is ready (I am only going to make way for you when it suits me)
I know that
hard work has never hurt anyone, but I am not going to take chances
Work facinates
me: I can sit and look at it for hours
Me no 'ave
noting
An empty bag can't stand up (When hungry one can't work)
Posters seen in an Intensified Inn: "Positively no admittance behind the bar" and "In God we trust, all others pay cash"
You don't need no lock on your gaztank. Them won't
steal the petrol without the car
Stop, look, listen (warning sign at railway crossing)
Stop, slow, men at work (Sign board at roadside, freely translated into: Stop, slow men at work)
Sleeping Policeman (A speed bump, speed hump, road hump)
Undertakers love overtakers (Warning sign at roadside)
One carwreck at the roadside signals a dangerous bend ahead. Two wrecks warn for a crossing. When you notice three wrecks you have hit on a workshop
Me no sen, you no come (You better stay away as long as I don't call for you)
District of Look Behind and Quick step (Names for areas of hide-aways)