«ضَعِيفْ وِيَاكُلْ مِيةْ رِغِيفْ»

The saying ridicules a person who complains of weakness or sickness while behaving like someone in robust health. The giveaway is appetite: anyone able to devour a hundred loaves, a deliberate exaggeration rather than a literal count, can hardly be as feeble as they claim, so the frailty is exposed as pretense.

Its humor rests on placing two incompatible facts side by side with a bare 'and', leaving the listener to notice the contradiction. More broadly, it targets anyone whose helplessness disappears whenever their own benefit is at stake, while it returns as soon as effort is demanded.

Use it when someone pleads frailty to dodge work or win sympathy, yet shows plenty of vigor once food or gain is involved. It suits light teasing among familiar people; said directly, it accuses someone of faking and can wound if the illness is real.