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Arabic · Arabic scriptProverb: Verified

«اِلْحِجْرْ قَصْرِيَّهْ وِالْبِزَازْ مِدَلِّيَّهْ»

Meanings

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Meaning: Verified
English translation

With the breast offered to him and his mother's lap serving as his potty.

Literal wording

The lap is a chamber pot, and the breasts are let down.

Meaning and lesson

The saying pictures a baby being nursed while it is allowed to relieve itself in its mother's lap at the same moment. Here the key word means the lap or the gathered fold of a garment, not stone or confinement. Both needs are met together, without effort or waiting. Nothing more could make it comfortable.

Applied to people, it describes someone who is pampered beyond measure, wrapped in every possible ease and indulgence. The point is excess: the person enjoys complete, simultaneous comfort, and there is no further luxury left that anyone could add to it.

When it is used

Use it for someone whose every comfort is supplied at once, especially a spoiled person who has never had to fend for themselves. Comparing an adult to a nursing baby can sound belittling, and the toilet imagery may strike some listeners as crude, so keep it to informal, familiar company.

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