Provençal proverb

Sabès pas mounte l'esclop mi fai mau.

Historical

Maritime Provençal

Sabès pas mounte l'esclop mi fai mau.

Meaning

You do not know where the clog pinches me.

Note : The senator Paullus Aemilius, wishing to repudiate his wife, said to those who tried to dissuade him: You see this shoe — it serves me very well against damp, yet you do not know where it pinches me.

Theme

Historical

Source : La Tour-Keyrié, Recueil de proverbes provençaux (1882), Gallica — public domain. Maritime Mistralian normalisation by Lingua Nostra.

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