«زَيِّ أُمِّ الْعَرُوسَهْ فَاضْيَهْ وِمَشْبُوكَهْ»

The saying describes a person who is at once idle and fully absorbed. Like a mother whose daughter is marrying, she carries no formal responsibility for the event, yet her mind stays fixed on it. The second term, literally hooked or entangled, here means preoccupied, not physically bound: she looks free but cannot settle.

More broadly, it points to the gap between outward leisure and inner preoccupation. It can gently tease someone who fusses over another person's business, appearing overworked though the concrete work and the outcome rest with somebody else. The image is illustrative, not a criticism of mothers.

Use it, usually lightly, for someone who has no actual task yet seems constantly busy or distracted, especially when the preoccupation concerns an event or matter that really belongs to another person.