1.a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb)2.(fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe)
1.(lit.) to never burn incense when all's well, but clutch Buddha's feet in a crisis (proverb)2.(fig.) to neglect preparation until the last moment, then act in panic
1.lit. don't tie your shoelaces in a melon patch, and don't adjust your hat under a plum tree (idiom)2.fig. don't do anything that might arouse suspicion3.innocent acts may be misconstrued
1.lit. you may go undetected during the new moon, but at full moon you'll be found out (idiom)2.fig. you can't put it off forever3.sooner or later you'll have to deal with it
1.lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb)2.fig. cannot be easily eliminated3.abbr. to 野火春风[yě huǒ chūn fēng]
1.(lit.) when covered with lice, one doesn't feel the itching anymore, and when up to one's ears in debt, one ceases to worry about it (saying)2.(fig.) to be past worrying (about sth)
it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平[dèng xiǎo píng] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
1.there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom)2.one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things
1.lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree2.fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect3.well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it