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不管白猫黑猫，捉住老鼠就是好猫

Traditional form:

不管白貓黑貓，捉住老鼠就是好貓

Pinyin (reading):

bùguǎnbáimāohēimāo,zhuōzhùlǎoshǔjiùshìhǎomāo

Definitions:

  • it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平／邓小平 ( Dèng Xiǎopíng) in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)

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