捨不得孩子套不住狼

1. • one who is not prepared to risk his child will never catch the wolf (proverb)
2. • one who is unwilling to take risks will not achieve great things

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Character by character

• 捨(shě)give up
• 不(bù)no
• 得(de)links a verb to how it is done
• 孩(hái)child
• 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair"
• 套(tào)cover
• 不(bù)no
• 住(zhù)live
• 狼(láng)wolf