不管

not to be concerned / regardless of / no matter

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

variant of 管[guan3]

surname Guan

to take care (of) / to control / to manage / to be in charge of / to look after / to run / to care about / tube / pipe / woodwind / classifier for tube-shaped objects / particle similar to 把[ba3] in 管...叫 constructions / writing brush / (coll.) to / towards

in any case / no matter what

to stand aside and do nothing (idiom) / to take no part in

to pay scant regard to (sth) / unheeding / reckless

of undetermined status / unregulated

regardless of the consequences / recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast

to stand by and pay no heed / to ignore

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[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)

to eat without working (idiom) / to take one's pay and not care about the rest

(coll.) to wash one's hands of a matter