Meaning
'Everyday bucket guh a well, one day di battam mus drop out' — every day the bucket goes to the well, but one day its bottom will drop out. If you keep repeating a risky or wrongful act, sooner or later it will fail you or catch up with you, the proverb warns: persistence at something dangerous eventually ends in disaster. Just as a bucket dipped daily into the well must one day give way, so the thief, the cheat, or the reckless chancer who presses their luck again and again will in the end be caught and come to grief.
Examples
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Him keep tief an tink him safe; everyday bucket guh a well, one day di battam mus drop out.
He keeps stealing and thinks he's safe; keep at wrongdoing and one day it catches up.
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Yuh cyaa get weh wid it forever; everyday bucket guh a well, one day di battam mus drop out.
You can't get away with it forever; luck runs out eventually.
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Stop tek di chance suh often — everyday bucket guh a well, one day di battam mus drop out.
Stop taking the risk so often — repeated chances end in ruin.
Origin
A well image: a bucket lowered day after day eventually wears through and its bottom gives way — a figure for repeated risk finally ending in failure.
How it’s used
A warning that repeated wrongdoing or risky behaviour will one day end badly, however long it seems to work.