«لُهْ عُمْرْ فِي السُّوقْ وِعُمْرْ فِي السَّنْدُوقْ»

The saying ironically pictures a person who seems to own two lives: one spent openly among people in the marketplace, and a spare one locked away in a chest, ready to be taken out once the first runs out. The image is mockery, not a literal belief. The two halves rhyme on 'souq' and 'sanduq'.

Its point is to ridicule the miser who hoards wealth instead of using it to live well. Such a person acts as if the hoard will be enjoyed in a future second lifetime, so the present one passes in needless self-denial.

Said mockingly about a stingy person who piles up money and denies themself ordinary comforts, as though the savings were reserved for some later existence. A variant with a feminine pronoun aims it at a woman. It suits teasing or critical remarks about a hoarder's self-deprivation, not praise for thrift.