When man dead, grass grow to 'em door.
“When a man is dead, grass grows at his door.”
Once someone is gone, they are quickly forgotten and their place is left untended.
— Traditional Bahamas Wisdom, Bahamas
Source: Traditional Bahamas proverb, public-domain oral tradition (recorded by H.H. Finlay, Eleuthera, 1925)
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