جا يطل غلب الكل
ga yetoll ghalab el koll
Translation: He came to take a look, and defeated everyone.
Meaning: Beginner’s luck. This colourful proverb, no longer common, invokes an image of a small town perhaps during festival or harvest time, when a visitor perhaps from the next village would excel in a game that the locals have always practiced together and knew exactly each other’s abilitie
Source: Egyptian Proverbs, (Al-Ahram Center for Translation and Publishing, 1986) by Ahmed Taymour Pasha,
Translated by: Nabil Shawkat
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