103Japanese proverb ことわざ
柳の下にいつも泥鰌はいない
やなぎのしたにいつもどじょうはいないYanagi no shita ni itsumo dojō wa inai
“There is not always a loach under the willow.”
The meaning
A success obtained once does not repeat on demand. Applying the recipe without checking conditions is fishing in a memory.
At the origin
Catching a fish under a willow once does not make the willow a fishpond.
The characters
- 柳 yanagiwillow
- の noof (link)
- 下 shitaunder
- に
- いつも
- 泥鰌
- は
- いない
のParticleLinks two words: possession or belonging, like “of”.
In practice
Before redoing "what worked", check that the conditions remain.