Proverb from Japan
Japanese
猿も木から落ちる
Saru mo ki kara ochiru
Meaning
Even experts sometimes make mistakes.
Source
デジタル大辞泉 (Shogakukan) and 精選版 日本国語大辞典, entry “猿も木から落ちる”, on Kotobank
The dictionary’s earliest cited use is a haikai verse in Takatsukuba (鷹筑波, 1638).
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