«دَلَعِ الْفَقَارَى يِفْقَعِ الْمَرَارَهْ»

This saying captures the exasperation some people feel when someone poor behaves as if spoiled, acting coy, fussy, or demanding with others. Such behavior strikes these onlookers as galling, provoking an anger figuratively strong enough to burst the gall bladder, an image of extreme irritation rather than a literal claim.

It rests on a class-based assumption, which it reflects rather than justifies, that a poor person ought to court goodwill through ingratiating conduct or else stay silent, rather than playing hard to please. It is applied to anyone of modest means seen as abandoning that expected restraint.

Used in exasperation about a person of modest means who acts spoiled, choosy, or demanding toward others rather than accommodating them. Because it passes judgment on the target's poverty, it belongs to blunt, informal speech and can sound condescending or insulting.