«كِلْمِةْ بُكْرَه اعْطِيكْ يَا مَا طَوَتْ أَيَّامْ»

A promise phrased as 'I'll give it to you tomorrow' has no natural end point. The opening exclamation, meaning 'how many!', stresses how many days such a pledge has folded away. The image is of time used up by waiting, not of a single delay, while the pledge stays unfulfilled and the deadline keeps moving.

The quoted promise stands for any repeated pledge to pay or deliver later, not only a literal gift. The saying works as a wry complaint or a warning: an open-ended postponement is effectively a refusal, and someone who keeps saying 'tomorrow' may never actually deliver.

Said to or about someone, such as a debtor or anyone who stalls, who keeps answering a request with 'tomorrow' and never follows through. It voices weary skepticism toward the next promise of later.