«خَارِجْ مِنِ الْحَرِيقَهْ قَابْلُهْ الْغُرَابْ زَغَطُهْ»

The saying pictures an unnamed escapee, commonly imagined as a small bird, struggling free of a blaze only to be bluntly gulped down whole by a crow waiting just beyond the flames. Surviving the first disaster turns out to be no rescue at all, because ruin arrives from another direction moments later.

At a deeper level it expresses a fatalistic view: what is destined will reach a person by one route or another. Dodging one cause of harm does not cancel the result, since another cause simply takes its place and completes what was already decreed.

Use it when someone narrowly survives one danger and is then undone by a different, unforeseen one. It also suits remarks about an outcome that seemed bound to happen whatever precautions were taken. It reads as rueful resignation, not mockery of the victim.