«اِلْمِعْزَهْ كُومْ، وِوْلَادْهَا كُومْ»

A single goat can weigh as much as all her young put together, so her one mouth may consume what a whole group would. The image concerns appetite, not her worth compared with her kids; it warns against judging a claimant's demand by headcount, since one individual can carry the weight of many.

Applied to people competing for something limited, it points out that one participant may absorb a share equal to everyone else's. The word for 'pile' marks an equal share, not a jibe about body size. Counting heads underestimates the pressure on supply, because one heavy claimant counts as a crowd.

Say it when several parties want a share of something and one of them, though a single person, will take as much as all the others combined. It suits wry remarks about dividing food, money, or resources among claimants.