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水
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Proverb
kindness begets kindness; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours; if a fish is kind to the water, the water will be kind to the fish
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Proverb
a teetotaler doesn't know (how tasty) water is when waking up after having been drunk
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Idiomatic expression
wasting one's efforts; rendering one's efforts futile
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Proverb
better starve than fatten on ill-gotten wealth; don't lower yourself to unjust acts, no matter how desperate you are; refraining to drink from a spring called Robber's Spring even if thirsty
Examples
渇しても盗泉の水は飲まず。
The eagle does not catch flies.
