«خَبْطِتِينْ فِي الرَّاسْ تِوْجَعْ»

Read at face value, the saying observes that being struck on the head twice brings pain, and its image is built on repetition: the hurt is tied to blows that come more than once. Taking the blows as recurring trouble or misfortune is a plausible extension of the image, but it remains an interpretation rather than a settled sense.

The wording is colloquial. Khabṭitēn is the dual of khabṭa, a knock or blow, and rās is the everyday form of the word for head. A parallel version uses ḍarbitēn, another word for blows, keeping the same structure and the same core image.

Fits remarks about something painful striking a second time. A broader application to repeated hardship is possible if the figurative reading is intended. The dialect wording gives it an everyday conversational tone rather than a formal one.