«سَيِّدْنَا مُوسَى مَاتْ، نَاشِفْ طَرِي هَاتْ»

The saying mocks greedy, indiscriminate eating. It announces that Moses is dead, so nobody remains to stop the eater or send him away from the food, and therefore everything should be brought out, dry and hard or soft and fresh, with nothing refused.

The two halves rhyme in Arabic, with māt (died) answering hāt (bring). The opposed words nāshif (dry, hard) and ṭarī (moist, tender) together cover the whole range of food, underlining that the eater rejects nothing set in front of him.

Said teasingly about someone, or oneself, eating without restraint and taking whatever food appears. It suits casual banter at a meal, not formal talk. Aimed at a particular person it can sound like an insult about their appetite, and its joking use of the revered Moses may offend some listeners.