after Saturday comes Sunday

English

Etymology

From Arabic ⁧مِن سَلَّف السَبت لاقا الحَدّ قَدّاموه⁩ (min sallaf es-sabt lāqā el-ḥadd qiddāmūh), literally "When Saturday is gone, one will find Sunday". The phrase is a classical proverb that means "the good or bad you do comes back to you".

Phrase

after Saturday comes Sunday

  1. (Islamism, politics, rare) A phrase sometimes attributed to fundamentalist Muslims, implying that they wish to kill the Jews, whose sabbath is Saturday, and then the Christians, whose sabbath is Sunday.

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