«اِلزَّرْعَ اخْضَرْ وِالنَّاسْ أَخْبَرْ»

The saying punctures the pretensions of someone newly risen in fortune who poses as though wealth and honor had always belonged to their family. The green crop marks a change so recent that it has not yet ripened, not freshness or vitality. Too little time has passed for others to forget.

The second half points to collective memory: people are better informed, a comparative, not 'news.' Neighbors saw the person's earlier hardship and low standing, so they know better than to accept an invented past. Claims of inherited glory fail before an audience that remembers.

Said when someone who has only recently prospered starts boasting of distinguished lineage or long-standing status. It is pointed and can sound insulting if aimed directly at someone, so it works more as a remark on pretension than as neutral description.