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Use a basket to carry water

It's a Jamaican idiom which means to be robbed off your intelligence or be offered a raw or deceptive deal.

Patois: Dat deh ah fake t'ing man, dem gi yuh ah baaskit fi cyaary waata.
English: That's a fake thing, you have been robbed off your intelligence(given a raw deal).

That's the way it is.

It literally means, "that's the way it stands", but used to mean "that's the way it is".

Patois: Ah suh di ting tan, yuh cyaa duh nutt'n bout it.
English: That's the way it is, you cannot do anything about it.

Eye

Eye

Patois: Mi nuh si mi pikni dem fram mi two yai open ah fus light.
English: I have not seen my children since my two eyes opened this morning.

die

To die

Patois: Wholleep a dem drop out.
English: Many of them died.

Tears

Tears.

Patois: Clean yuh yai waata, mi ah guh gi yuh ah new one
English: Wipe your tears, I will give you a new one.