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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«يَا خَبَرْ بِجْدِيدْ. قَالْ: بُكْرَهْ يِبْقَى بَلَاشْ»

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

News for a penny? Wait a day and you'll hear it for free.

Literal wording

O news for a jadid coin! He said: Tomorrow it will be for nothing.

Meaning and lesson

The saying sets up a tiny exchange: a call offers a piece of news for a jadid, a small coin of the period (not the adjective 'new'), and the answer is a shrug. Why pay today for something that will be circulating freely by tomorrow? Patience gets the same information at no cost.

Underneath the joke lies a broader claim that news cannot stay hidden. Whatever is concealed or sold as a secret now will reach everyone soon, so hoarding it, or straining to obtain it early, is a wasted effort.

When it is used

Use it to cool someone's eagerness to pay, pry, or bargain for information that will surface anyway. It also works as a dry remark when someone guards a secret that is certain to spread by itself before long.

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