South Levantine Arabic[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literally: “a pot that found its lid”. Compare semantically German auf jeden Topf passt ein Deckel etc.
Proverb[edit]
طنجرة ولقت غطاها • (ṭanjara w-laʔat ḡaṭāha)
- every Jack has his Jill [1]
References[edit]
- ^ Elham Alzoubi (2020) Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions in Levantine Arabic: Jordanian Dialect[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 91, →ISBN
