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The midday donkey is loose — stay inside, or it will find you.

A folk figure once invoked by Kuwaiti parents to keep children from playing outdoors during the fiercest heat of midday; the phrase lives on as a warning against needless exposure to danger.

Traditional Kuwait Wisdom, Kuwait

Source: Mahmoud Aziz F. Yassin, "Kuwaiti Arabic Idioms," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1 (1978), pp. 67-72

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