常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋

cháng zài hé biān zǒu , nǎ yǒu bù shī xié

Definitions

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)

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Child Words of 常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋

no; not so

how

which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)

to exist; to be alive

always

to have; there is

river

moist

to walk

side

shoe

Taiwan pr. [nuó]

river bank