芸は身を助く。
Accomplishments are a friend in need.
芸は身を助く
芸は身を助く.
Accomplishments are a lifelong benefit to their possessor.
Accomplishments prove one's ruin.
Accomplishment proved his ruin.
One's accomplishments often prove one's ruin.
至芸.
the act of working as a prostitute
to master an art―make oneself master of one's business―(女なら)―make oneself mistress of one's business
a geisha who receives money more for her sexual favors than for artistically entertaining performances
to know something of everything and everything of something