- English translation
Juha has the first claim to the meat of his own bull.
- Literal wording
Juha has the greater right to the meat of his bull.
- Meaning and lesson
Possession brings precedence: whoever owns something stands first in line for it, ahead of every other person. The saying packs this principle of rightful claim into a short, memorable form.
The picture behind it is concrete. Juha, a well-known figure of comic anecdotes, appears with his own bull, and the meat of that animal is naturally his before it could be anyone else's. Here طور means a bull, not its more familiar sense of mountain.
- When it is used
Suitable when someone wants to affirm that a thing belongs first to its owner, and that the owner's claim to it comes ahead of anyone else's. The proverb states this principle briefly through a familiar folk character.
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