«كُل وَاحِدْ يِبَرَّدْ لُقْمَهْ عَلَى قَد بُقُّهْ»

The picture is of someone blowing on hot food before eating. Nobody cools a chunk too large to fit between their lips; the piece they hold up is already sized to the mouth that will receive it. The image grounds the lesson in an ordinary moment at the table.

Applied more broadly, the saying holds that sensible people measure what they take on against their own capacity. Ambitions, tasks, and commitments should be scaled to what one can genuinely handle, and each person naturally works within limits that are proportionate to themselves.

Fits remarks about keeping an undertaking within one's real means, for example gently warning someone not to take on more than they can manage, or approving a plan that has been sized sensibly to the person carrying it out.