«نَطَرِتْ عَلَى بْتَاعِ الْمَلْحْ غَنَّى بْتَاعِ الْقُلْقَاسْ، قَالْ لُهْ: أَهِي جَتْ عَلَى نَاسْ نَاسْ»

The same event can bless one person and ruin another. A shower that spoils one man's salt makes another man's taro thrive, so one rainfall brings joy to one neighbor and loss to the next. Fortune does not land evenly; it favors whoever needs what it happens to bring.

In the scene, the man whose salt was spoiled answers the taro man's singing by noting that the rain came for some people and not for others. The saying can point out to someone celebrating that the circumstance behind their gain has brought harm to another.

Use when one event clearly helps one party while hurting another, especially when the party who benefits is celebrating openly. It can be voiced by the one who lost out or by an observer commenting on how unevenly a shared circumstance falls.