«اِلْقَشَلْ خُزَامِ الْعَنْتِيلْ»

The proverb claims that financial ruin humbles a haughty, domineering bully more effectively than anything else. Just as a cord or pin set through a camel's nostril lets it be led and forced to obey, losing one's means makes the overbearing tyrant lower his head and submit.

It also implies that such arrogance often rests on money and the power it buys. Once the resources disappear, the bluster goes with them. The saying can serve as a moral observation about pride and wealth, or as a remark on someone whose haughtiness collapsed with their fortune.

Apply it when a domineering, arrogant person has been brought low by losing their money, or to suggest that someone's swagger rests on wealth that could vanish. It comments on the forced humbling of the overbearing rather than describing ordinary hardship.