idioms

[silfa]

I wold like to know the meaning of the English Idiom:

"to envy the mule for his plenty"

thanks

[far-mash]

Hi

That's a very strange expression ...I guess the word plenty refers here to the relaxed and carefree living a mule has . Thus if we use it we could express a hard situation one is going through ..that's to say a mule is luckier as he doesn't have to have all this botheration