«يُعُومْ وِيُحْرُسْ ثِيَابُهْ»

The proverb pictures a swimmer who is immersed in the water yet keeps glancing toward the clothes left on shore. It celebrates a person whose alertness does not lapse, someone able to attend to one matter without letting another slip from view.

Applied to people, it marks a wakeful, watchful character: one who can be absorbed in work, pleasure, or conversation and still guard their interests. The emphasis falls on divided but unbroken attention rather than on anxiety or suspicion of others.

Use it to describe or praise someone who stays fully engaged in an activity while never losing track of what they must protect, for example a person who enjoys a gathering yet keeps an eye on their responsibilities.