Arabic-L:GEN:A handful of Lentils query

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1) Subject:A handful of Lentils query

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Date: 110 Feb 2010
From:Maurice Pomerantz <mpomeran at gmail.com>
Subject:A handful of Lentils query

Dear friends, 

I am trying to find as many variants of stories with a version of the well-known proverb:  

"اللي بيدري بيدري واللي ما بيدري بيقول كف عدس"

"He who knows, knows, and he who doesn't know says a 'handful of lentils.'" 

I am mainly interested in the variants of the story "behind the proverb" but information on 
dialectical variants and usage would also be helpful. So let me "know what you know" about this proverb and its meaning.  


With best regards and thanks!


Maurice A. Pomerantz 

Asst. Prof. Faculty Fellow
New York University   
mp147 at nyu.edu

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