«زَي مَالَكْ مَا يِصْعَبْ عَلِيكْ»

The saying observes that nothing pains people quite like harm to what belongs to them. Here the sense is feeling sorry or aggrieved, not finding something difficult: a loss, breakage, or careless spending hurts most when one's own property is at stake, more than other people's goods.

Used in conversation, it can gently expose a double standard: someone who shrugged off another person's misfortune suddenly grieves when the same happens to their possessions. It may also explain why an owner guards property anxiously and spends it reluctantly.

Fits moments when someone is pained by damage, waste, or loss to their own belongings, especially after seeming indifferent to similar losses suffered by others. It can be said wryly to note that ownership sharpens feeling; it concerns that sting, not greed generally.