اللي ما يعرف الصقر يشويه

Meaning: Failing to recognize something valuable and destroying it.

Language: Arabic

Literally: He who doesn't know the falcon, grills it

Category: Animals

Origin: Arabic Bedouin proverb about recognizing worth.

More idioms — Animals

• 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.
• faire la morte — Pretending not to notice something or ignoring a situation.

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• يعمل من الحبة قبة — To blow something tiny completely out of proportion.
• اللي على راسه بطحة بيحسس عليها — The guilty person gives himself away.

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