Saharinese Idioms

"No chickens left."

A hopeless situation.
Or, something completely empty or abandoned.

Until the modern era, a rural home was almost always a subsistence farm, which almost always included chickens. In fact, it's still common. Therefore, if a person comes to a home that does not have chickens, it usually means the home has been long abandoned. A Saharinese poet used the phrase as a metaphor for emptiness/aloneness and it was eventually associated with hopelessness. This may have come from an interpretation that someone traveling to a homestead would feel hopeless upon discovering that not even the chickens were left. 

"Hands not stars" or "Consult the hands instead of the stars"

Advice on how to find a good spouse.
Or, only judge a person by what they do.

While many aspects of Han Chinese culture influenced the area, astrology was generally rejected. Astrology as a factor of matchmaking was particularly dismissed. A person's hands have information about health, status and labors, which Saharinese think is more relevant to finding a compatible spouse than the sky at the time of a person's birth. From this specific application, the idiom has sometimes been expanded to mean only judge people based on what they do - the kinds of things that would be evident on a person's hands - rather than circumstances of birth or other assumptions.

"The ogre from the mountain."

A reference to Saharinese hospitality.
If someone is in need, one opens one's home, even if it is the ogre from the mountain. This is a common sentiment among rural cultures, especially those in harsh climates. Traditional Saharinese homes have an enclosed but unlocked entry, ensuring visitors can get out of the cold immediately.