Urombo hwamatede kunayiwa ngemvura makurwe ari mumhatso

Dzimwe dzenguva, vasina njere vanokwanisa kukunda vanenjere pakubudirira.

The misfortune of baboons is to get drenched by the rain while the crickets are hiding in the baboons refuge.

Sometimes success comes to those who may lack intelligence and means where the intelligent have foundered.

The baboons are considered to be very cocky creatures who benefit using trickery and intelligence. They are the closest mammals to human beings in some of their mannerisms and skills. Interestingly even though the baboons are always able to locate a place of refuge or sleep that they can call home, when it rains they always seem to get soaked. Crickets on the other hand, considered quite dumb, always seem to find a way to secure their place in the baboons habitation where they are not rained. Hence the observation led to our ancestors forming the lesson that at times those with the intelligence or the means can often be outwitted by the the less intelligent - who end up prospering at the expense of the ones with means or intelligence.

The proverb is used to shame people with means who fail to make the most of it and are outdone by those of a disadvantaged background or stature. It can also be used encourage those with means or intelligence to be more daring, enterprising and courageous in their ventures and not simply rely on the fact that they have the means.