«فَرْخَهْ بِينَ ارْبَعَهْ مَا مِنْهَا مَنْفَعَهْ»

The image is a single chicken that four people must share. Cut into four portions, it fills nobody, so the meal accomplishes nothing for any of them. A thing can have genuine worth and still lose it once it is parceled out among too many people.

More generally, the saying comments on scarce goods divided among many claimants. Its point is dilution through division, not quarreling among those who share. When the whole is small, each share can be too slight to matter, so the value disappears through distribution itself.

Say it when a modest amount, such as a small sum, a limited stock, or a single opportunity, is being spread across several people, to point out that each portion will be too small to help anyone.