«مِرَيَّحِ الْعَرَايَا مِنْ غَسِيلِ الصَّابُونْ»

A person with no clothes has nothing to launder, so the labor and cost of soap never touch them. The saying points to a hidden benefit of lack: whoever does not own a thing is also free of the cares and chores that come with owning it.

More broadly, it describes someone who can do without a given thing and therefore owes it no effort, money, or worry. The remark may be wry, consoling, or quietly mocking, and it often suggests that the person's poverty is also a kind of exemption.

Said of someone who, lacking a possession, also escapes the work or expense of maintaining it, or of anyone who has no need for a thing. Depending on the speaker, it can be a wry joke or a consoling remark; it is not necessarily praise for having nothing.