Atevi proverbs from the Foreigner series by CJ Cherryh

• Pointing out that Jase might have a bias against the natives, including humans on Mospheira, was an egg which, the atevi proverb had it, once cracked, had to be eaten.


• Now I have a tall stack of china, as my atevi associates would say, on a very weak table.


• the Dojisigi were suddenly alone on the rock, as the saying went, meaning everybody else had been offered a seat in the boat