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From: MDBG CC-CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary 漢英字典

 跳進黃河洗不清 [ㄊㄧㄠˋ ㄐㄧㄣˋ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄏㄜˊ ㄒㄧˇ ㄅㄨˋ ㄑㄧㄥ; tiao4 jin4 huang2 he2 xi3 bu4 qing1]
 lit. even jumping into the Yellow River can't get you clean
 fig. to become inexorably mixed up
 mired in controversy
 in deep trouble
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