Maritime Provençal
Mando li su la testo un passarés.
Meaning
Send a chamber pot down on his head.
Note : Formerly, when chamber pots were emptied out of windows, one would cry: passa rès (nothing is passing), so as not to pour the contents on passers-by. This expression became a name given to the vessel itself.
Theme
Source : La Tour-Keyrié, Recueil de proverbes provençaux (1882), Gallica — public domain. Maritime Mistralian normalisation by Lingua Nostra.