القرد بعين أمه غزال (al-qird bi-ʿayn ummihi ghazāl)
Meaning: Parents see their children as beautiful no matter what.
Language: Arabic
Literally: A monkey in its mother's eyes is a gazelle
Category: Animals
Origin: Arabic proverb about parental love's distortion.
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- اللي ما يعرف الصقر يشويه (illi ma yaʿrif al-ṣaqr yishwīh) — Failing to recognize something valuable and destroying it.
- Matar a cobra e mostrar o pau — To prove you actually did what you claim.
- Noyer le poisson — To confuse the issue deliberately; to dodge a question.
- Appeler un chat un chat — To call things by their proper name; to speak bluntly.
- Donner sa langue au chat — To give up trying to guess the answer.
- Faire d'une mouche un éléphant — To make a mountain out of a molehill; to exaggerate wildly.
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- حط في بطنك بطيخة صيفي (ḥuṭṭ fī baṭnak baṭīkha ṣayfī) — Relax completely; do not worry about a thing.
- يعمل من الحبة قبة (Ya'mal min al-ḥabba qubba) — To blow something tiny completely out of proportion.
- اللي على راسه بطحة بيحسس عليها (illi ʿala rasu baṭḥa byiḥassis ʿalayha) — The guilty person gives himself away.
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