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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«اِلْفَرَحِ الدَّايِمْ يِعَلِّمِ الرَّقْصْ»

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

A celebration that never ends will teach anyone to dance.

Literal wording

The lasting wedding teaches dancing.

Meaning and lesson

The saying points to the way lasting conditions mold a person. Someone who spends night after night amid wedding festivities is eventually swept up by the music and begins to dance, even without having set out to learn.

More broadly, it observes that people absorb the habits of whatever surrounds them for long enough, without praising or blaming the one who ends up dancing. Since the key word means both a wedding and joy itself, the image reads equally as endless celebration or as sustained happiness.

When it is used

Fitting when remarking that someone's behavior has shifted because of the setting they keep finding themselves in, such as a person who turns lively after a long run of happy occasions. It works as a light observation on how habits form from repeated circumstances.

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