308 LIEUT.-COLONEL D. C. PHILLOTT : 



50. " Be a whole man, or be half a man ' or still be a b — y fool "; {i.e. don't be halt 

 and half : be one thing or the other.) 



51. {a) " My gilim was originally woven black*" 



(6) " If the gilim of one's fate be woven black, not the waters of Zamzam nor 

 Kausar will wash it white." 

 (One fated to ill-luck cannot have good luck.) 



52. (a) " The sun can't scorch more, nor the slave be burnt blacker." 

 (6) " There is nothing blacker than black." 



(I can't be more unlucky than I am.) 



53. " My face is red from slaps and not from health : from starvation my legs refuse 

 their office." (Said to a poor man ; you must not judge by appearances.) 



54. " The moon with all her splendour is hidden three days a month, but your face 

 is with us always. " (Said ironically to a troublesome person.) 



55. "Why pipe to one that is deaf why dance to one that is blind ? " Cf. 'Why cast 

 your pearls before swine ? ' 



56. " If a mulla stretch out his hand to a dish of food, he won't rest till he has 

 plunged it deep into its butter." (Applied to the poverty and greed of mullas.) 



57. " Kill yourself by smoking your fill ; the opium's free." (A taunt.) 



58. " A hundred like you I've taken to the stream, and by cunning brought back 

 thirsty." (I'm smart enough to have taken in a hundred like you, and do you try and get 

 the better of me ?) 



59. " Take care he doesn't trick you." (Origin obscure.) 



do. " Forty years I've been a faithful dog here, and I am now a confidential servant." 

 (Said by a servant to a recruit claiming equality.) 



61. " Nothing more uniform have I seen than an egg: 



Break it, and two colours are disclosed." 

 (No man is the same inside and out.) 



62. " You are like stone-cakes: different on each side." (As above.) 



63. " He's only alive because he's too poor to buy a shroud." (Said of a poor 

 or wretched person.) Cf ' He can't afford to die as he has'nt enough money to pay 

 for his funeral expenses.' 



64. (a) " A ladder is mounted step by step." 

 (6) " God created the world by degrees." 



Cf. ' Step by step climbs the hill.' 



' Go slow : Rome was not built in a day.' 



65. "You're like a brother that — : there's no gain and no sense of obligation." 



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66. " May your bread be ever tied to the gazelle's horn " ; i.e., be difficult to get. 

 (A curse.) 



i Half a man ; ' a coward ; a tailor.' Don't be ' half partridge half quail.' 



