noun
wet hands
Refers to hands that are wet. Often appears in the proverb 濡れ手で粟 (ぬれてであわ), meaning 'easy profit' or 'making a profit without effort', likened to grabbing millet with wet hands.
濡れ手でスマホを触らないでください。
Please don't touch your smartphone with wet hands.
「濡れ手で粟」とは、苦労せずに利益を得るたとえだ。
'Wet hands with millet' is a metaphor for gaining profit without effort.
A proverb using 濡れ手 to describe easy profit.
Compound of 濡れ (nure, 'wet', the 連用形 of 濡れる) and 手 (te, 'hand').