اللي على راسه بطحة بيحسس عليها

Meaning: The guilty person gives himself away.

Language: Arabic

Literally: He who has a bump on his head keeps touching it

Category: Body & Senses

Origin: An Egyptian image: someone nursing a hidden wound keeps anxiously feeling for it, betraying exactly what he hoped to hide.

More idioms — Body & Senses

• Avoir le bras long — To have influence and useful connections.
• Avoir le cœur sur la main — To be very generous and giving.
• To cost an arm and a leg — To be extremely expensive.
• Tener más cara que espalda — To be utterly shameless and brazen.
• Non avere peli sulla lingua — To speak bluntly and hold nothing back.
• Avere le mani bucate — To be a spendthrift.

More Arabic idioms

• الحبل على الكذب قصير — Lies never last; they are soon exposed.
• يد واحدة لا تصفق — Nothing is achieved without cooperation.
• الجمل ما يشوف عوجة رقبته — People are blind to their own faults.
• تمخض الجبل فولد فأرا — A huge fuss producing a tiny result.
• يضرب في حديد بارد — To waste effort on a hopeless task.
• القرد بعين أمه غزال — Parents see their children as beautiful no matter what.

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