Table 8 Proverbs representing women as a source of cunning, deception, mistrust, and jealousy.

From: Ideological representations of women in Jordanian folk proverbs from the perspective of cultural semiotics

إن كيدهن عظيم

Women’s cunning is immense

الرجال غابوا والنسوان سابوا

The men are absent, and the women became unrestrained

لا تأمن للمرة اذا صلت ولا للشمس اذا ولت

Do not trust women even if they pray and the sun if it disappears.

الضرة مرة ولو كانت جرة

The fellow wife is unpleasant, even if it was a jar

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