常在河边走，哪有不湿鞋

cháng zài hé biān zǒu , nǎ yǒu bù shī xié

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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

• 不 不 bù: no; not so
• 哪 哪 nǎ: how
• 哪 哪 něi: which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)
• 在 在 zài: to exist; to be alive
• 常 常 cháng: always
• 有 有 yǒu: to have; there is
• 河 河 hé: river
• 湿 湿 shī: moist
• 走 走 zǒu: to walk
• 边 边 biān: side
• 鞋 鞋 xié: shoe
• 哪 哪 né: Taiwan pr. [nuó]
• 河边 河边 hé biān: river bank