I take it that I exaggerated saying you haven’t heard this Igbo saying before. I spilled my guts all over me in laughter the day a friend used this expression on me while trying to explain a point to me.
And this is how he put it:
“As elephant’s leg is heavy on him, so also an ant’s.”
Can you imagine that! An ant’s leg heavy on him too? Hian!
We all have our individual challenges and they occupy our thought-process until the challenge is taken care of.