"cow neva know di use a 'im tail till 'im lose it" meaning in Jamaican Creole

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, \"A cow doesn't know what its tail is for until it's lost it.\"",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "cow neva know di use a 'im tail till 'im lose it",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cow neva know di use a 'im tail till 'im lose it",
      "name": "jam-proverb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cow‧ne‧va‧know‧di‧use‧a‧'im‧tail‧till‧'im‧lose‧it"
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Jamaican Creole entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican Creole proverbs",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "In the evening he called me back and told me, \"you never miss the water till the well runs dry.\" […]",
          "ref": "2018, “Tell me Pastor - Caught between two men”, in The Jamaica Star (in English), archived from the original on 2020-10-19",
          "text": "“In the evening he called me back and told me that \"Cow neva know di use ah him tail til' him lose it\" […]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "you never miss the water till the well runs dry"
      ],
      "id": "en-cow_neva_know_di_use_a_'im_tail_till_'im_lose_it-jam-proverb-xfoqp2ru",
      "links": [
        [
          "you never miss the water till the well runs dry",
          "you never miss the water till the well runs dry"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɔʊ̯ ˈnɛba ˈnʷoː ˈdɪ‿juːs a‿im ˈtʲel ˈtɪl ˈɪm ˈluːz‿i/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cow neva know di use a 'im tail till 'im lose it"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, \"A cow doesn't know what its tail is for until it's lost it.\"",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "jam",
        "2": "proverb"
      },
      "expansion": "cow neva know di use a 'im tail till 'im lose it",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cow neva know di use a 'im tail till 'im lose it",
      "name": "jam-proverb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cow‧ne‧va‧know‧di‧use‧a‧'im‧tail‧till‧'im‧lose‧it"
  ],
  "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
  "lang_code": "jam",
  "pos": "proverb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header",
        "Jamaican Creole entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "Jamaican Creole idioms",
        "Jamaican Creole lemmas",
        "Jamaican Creole multiword terms",
        "Jamaican Creole proverbs",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Jamaican Creole terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "In the evening he called me back and told me, \"you never miss the water till the well runs dry.\" […]",
          "ref": "2018, “Tell me Pastor - Caught between two men”, in The Jamaica Star (in English), archived from the original on 2020-10-19",
          "text": "“In the evening he called me back and told me that \"Cow neva know di use ah him tail til' him lose it\" […]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "you never miss the water till the well runs dry"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "you never miss the water till the well runs dry",
          "you never miss the water till the well runs dry"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɔʊ̯ ˈnɛba ˈnʷoː ˈdɪ‿juːs a‿im ˈtʲel ˈtɪl ˈɪm ˈluːz‿i/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cow neva know di use a 'im tail till 'im lose it"
}