336 L1EUT.-C0L0NEL D. C. PHILLOTT : 



337. " These are Shiraz compliments." Cf. * Sott words butter no parsnips.'" 

 Vide 314. 



338. " He who has no money eats merd." (i.e., he has a bad time.) VideWo. 106. 



339. " May no Muslim hear it ; may no infidel see it ! " (=Alas! how fatally !) 



340. (a) "I sought you in the sky ; I found you in the earth." 



(b) •' My love is in the house and I'm seeking her through the world. 

 There is water in the pitcher but I wander athirst." 

 (Said on unexpectedly coming across a friend that has been sought for far and near.) 



341. " Thoughts are mere air." 



342. " Bring the ass and load up the dispute " (or " the beans "). Cf. ' The fat's 

 in the fire.' 



343. " Yellow dog brother to black jackal/' (i.e., one is as bad as the other). 

 Vide No. 349. 



344. " I'll bet you a hair of my beard that he won't," (i.e., I'll bet you a fa: thing 

 he won't). 



345. " I'm a bhoy from the Pure Country," (i.e., ' I'm from Shiraz : ' a luti phrase). 



346. '' Your henna has no colour," (i.e., 'your words have no value). 



347. " If you can't get hold of the lady, put up with her kitchen maid." 



348. " I can't satisfy two wives." Cf. ' I can't serve both mistress and maid.' 



349. " The bay is no worse than the iron-grey." (The wife is as bad as the hus- 

 band. The one is as bad as the other). 



350. " The kulah of Taqi on the head of Naqi." Cf. ' Robbing Peter to pay Paul.' 



351. " Little Ahmad goes not to school, but he's made to go," (i.e., ' If you 

 don't do it willingly, you'll be made to do it'). 



352. " First rinse your mouth with rose-water and then mention his name," (i.e., 

 he's a very great person, one not to be mentioned except with veneration. Also said to= 

 a pretender claiming equality with a great writer). 



353- ( a ) " None sees his own faults." 



(b) " Everyone sees the faults of others." 

 Cf. A camel does not see its own hump. 



354. " Every bird that has a crooked beak is not a gos-hawk." 

 Cf. All are not hunters that blow the horn. 



355. (a) " When the bamboo blossoms." 



(b) " The year that has no Friday," (i.e., never). Cf. 'When two Sundays- 

 meet together,' or ' When Good Friday falls on a Thursday.' 



356. td-i-Fitr can never fall on the day of 'Askurd*." 1 



357. " The cloth merchant is ever naked, and the shoemaker barefoot." 

 Cf. Nobody is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife. 



358. " His head is like the bottom of a bowl." (i.e., bald). Cf. ' As bald as an egg. f 



' Id'i-Fitr terminates the Fast, and 'Ashura* is the 10th of Muharram, the day of Husain's death and the day that the shablh 

 (in India ta'ziya) is brought out. 



