Nafsika Theodoridou The camel was asked: "The updraft is better or the downhill?" and it replied: "Why not the straight road?" That means that there is also the easy way to achieve something but people usually think more complicating solutions.  I learned this idiom from my grandmother, since she was used to tell it frequently, as it was one of her favourites expressions. So, every time I was thinking too complicated options she was using this idiom to show me the short cut.