«كِلْمَه تْجِيبُهْ وِكِلْمَه تْوَدِّيهْ»

The saying pictures a person pushed around entirely by what others tell him. One remark draws him toward a position and the next pulls him back out of it. The wording is masculine, but the point applies to anyone. Having no firm judgment of their own, such a person shifts with whoever spoke last.

It is a criticism, not praise for flexibility or open-mindedness. It faults someone with feeble judgment and a changeable mind, who will agree to a course of action and then to its opposite without registering the contradiction. The fault is being steered wholly by outside talk, so such views cannot be relied upon.

Use it, usually disapprovingly, of someone whose opinion a single remark can reverse, such as a person who backs one side after hearing it, then switches as soon as the other side speaks. It suits remarks about a person's unreliable judgment.