不见棺材不掉泪
bú​jiàn​guān​cai​bù​diào​lèi

not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin

  1. 不见 不見 bù​jiàn
    not to see
    not to see; not to meet; to not see each other
  2. 棺材 guān​cai
    coffin
    coffin; a box or case in which a corpse is buried
  3. 不 bù
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  4. 掉泪 掉淚 diào​lèi
    to shed tears
    to shed tears; to cry; to weep