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Proverb: "Set a thief to catch a thief"

Meaning: The best person to catch a thief is another thief, because he or she knows how thieves think.

For example:

- The government set a thief to catch a thief, hiring a stockbroker convicted of fraudulent practices to entrap the stockbroker they were investigating for fraud.

Meaning in Arabic:

لا يقطع الشجرة الا فرع منها ومثله
بالعامية: دود الخل منه وفيه

Idiom: "you don't say!" (informal)

Meaning: used either to express surprise or lack of surprise in a humorous and slightly unkind way


For example:

- "He's lost his job." "You don't say!"
- ''Hey, guess what? there's a country called Brazil! ''you don't say.'

Meaning in Arabic:
تستخدم للتعبير عن مفاجأة الشخص (بشيء ما) بطريقة فكاهية و غير لبقة