Provençal expression

La pèiro vai au clapié

Money

Literal translation

the stone goes to the pile of stones

Meaning

money flows to those who already have it

Explanation

Means that money goes to the rich, or more broadly that like joins like. A clapié is a pile of flat stones, clapo, that farmers cleared from the stony soil to make it fit for planting and stacked at the field's edge, a task so constant and gruelling that the image took hold in people's minds. The financial sense is by far the more common of the two.

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