«حَدِّ يْقُولِ: الْبَغْلْ فِي الأَبْرِيقْ؟»

The saying pictures someone announcing that a mule sits inside a pitcher. The image is so plainly impossible that no listener could accept it. Posed as a rhetorical question that seeks no answer, it implies that such a statement is unthinkable and that no one would have the nerve to say it aloud.

More broadly, the proverb holds that a sensible person will not put forward a claim whose falsehood is obvious at a glance. A lie can only succeed if it is believable. Asserting the absurd invites ridicule and costs the speaker credibility, so even a deceiver has limits.

Use it to dismiss a claim so obviously impossible that stating it would expose the speaker as a liar or a fool. It works as a sarcastic question aimed at someone stretching the truth, or as a reminder that some falsehoods are too blatant to attempt.