Nasreddin Soup Of Soup

tale:nasreddin_soup_of_soup

A villager brings the Hodja a rabbit and is feasted. Then the man's friends arrive expecting the same, then friends of those friends, until the Hodja sets before the latest crowd a pot of plain hot water, calling it 'the soup of the soup of the rabbit.' Moral: a favor stretched too thin becomes nothing at all. — Nasreddin Hodja