«هُوَّ الْكَلْبْ يُعُض وِدْنَ اخُوهْ؟»

The proverb claims that creatures of one kind hold back from injuring their own. By asking whether a dog would sink its teeth into its brother's ear, it treats such an attack as unthinkable and invites the listener to agree that kin and peers do not wound each other.

Applied to people, the image suggests that those who share a bond, whether blood, class, or occupation, tend to spare and shield one another. Framed as a rhetorical question expecting the answer no, it carries the point more forcefully than a flat statement would.

Suitable when remarking that people of the same group, family, or trade are unlikely to turn on one another, for instance when someone expects one member of a circle to harm or expose another and the speaker doubts it will happen.