طنجرة ولقت غطاها

South Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

  • طاسة ولقت غطاها (ṭāse w-laʔat ḡaṭā-ha)

Etymology

Literally: “a pot that found its lid”. Compare semantically German auf jeden Topf passt ein Deckel etc.

Proverb

طنجرة ولقت غطاها • (ṭanjara w-laʔat ḡaṭāha)

  1. every Jack has his Jill [1]

References

  1. ^ Elham Alzoubi (2020) Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions in Levantine Arabic: Jordanian Dialect‎[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 91, →ISBN
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