جا يطل غلب الكل ga yetoll ghalab el koll Translation: He came to take a look, and defeated everyone. Meaning: Beginner's luck. This colourful proverb, no longer common, invokes an image of a small town perhaps during festival or harvest time, when a visitor perhaps from the next village would excel in a game that the locals have always practiced together and knew exactly each other's abilitie Source: Egyptian Proverbs, (Al-Ahram Center for Translation and Publishing, 1986) by Ahmed Taymour Pasha, Translated by: Nabil Shawkat http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/134363.aspx