No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old [stuff], and there is a worse rent.
"Hakuna mtu anayekata kiraka kutoka katika nguo mpya na kukishonea katika nguo kuukuu. Kama akifanya hivyo, hicho kiraka kipya kitararuka kutoka hilo vazi kuukuu, nalo litaharibika zaidi.