«مِنْ بَلَغِ السِّتِّينْ اِشْتَكَى مِنْ غِيرْ عِلَّهْ»

The saying holds that old age is itself a kind of affliction. Once a person passes a certain point in life, aches, weariness, and discomfort arrive on their own, even when no specific disease can be named. Its verb can mean either complaining or feeling pain, so it may point to grumbling or to bodily ache; both share this idea.

It can be voiced with sympathy, as a reminder that an elderly person's complaints are natural and deserve patience, or with gentle irony, when someone older laments their frailty. Either way, it treats the decline of the body as an expected companion of advancing years.

Fits moments when someone in later life mentions aches, fatigue, or general discomfort with no identifiable illness, as a wry acknowledgment that age carries its own burdens. Aimed at a specific person, it can sound dismissive, so keep it sympathetic or self-deprecating, never belittling genuine medical complaints.