فسر الماء بعد الجهد بالماء

Arabic

Alternative forms

• فَسَّرَ المَاءَ بِالمَاء (fassara l-māʔa bi-l-māʔ)

Etymology

Literally: “With some toil, he explained water as being water.”

Proverb

فَسَّرَ الْماءَ بَعْدَ الْجُهْدِ بِالْماءِ • (fassara l-māʔa baʕda l-juhdi bi-l-māʔi)

1. Said about verbose and grandiloquent speech or writing with little meaning, or about any trivial statement.
2. Said about an explanation that hardly explains what it promises to.