Bo ta bomba awa di renbak.
“You're pumping water from an empty cistern.”
A parent's warning against wasting time on something pointless instead of doing real work.
— Traditional Aruba Wisdom, Aruba
Source: Traditional Papiamento proverb, shared ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao) oral tradition, public-domain
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