«حُطُّوا تَقْلِيِّتْكُمْ وَأَنَا لُقْمَةْ بْجُمْلِتْكُمْ»

The saying holds that one individual weighs almost nothing on the resources of a group. Whatever the many prepare for themselves, pictured here as a dish flavored with onions fried beforehand, will stretch to cover one more person without anyone noticing a difference in quantity.

The speaker uses it to brush aside worries about being a burden. In effect he says: carry on cooking as you normally would, because I claim no separate portion; my share is counted in with everyone else's and will not make the pot noticeably smaller or larger.

Suited to moments when one person joins a group's meal or shared provisions and reassures them, half-jokingly, that a single extra mouth changes nothing. It stresses the slight burden one adds, and should not be read as freeloading or a bid for hospitality unless context points that way.