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巧妇难为无米之炊 -- "even the cleverest house wife cannot cook without rice".
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%B7%A7%E5%A9%A6%E9%9B%A3%E7%82%BA%E7%84%A1%E7%B1%B3%E4%B9%8B%E7%82%8A
I'd argue it's closer to 朽木不可雕^. 巧婦難為無米之炊 (巧妇难为无米之炊) is more like you can't make stuff without the necessary requirements.
^朽木不可雕: Lit. Rotten wood can't be carved, metaphorically You can’t teach a student that is too dumb.
... Well actually no. Upon looking into these 3 idioms further while composing this comment, I leaned more and more towards that 巧婦難為無米之炊 is actually closer. Why? Because 朽木不可雕 applies only to humans and it puts more of a focus on the rotten wood (aka the dumb student).
I guess this comment was kind of useless lol but I decided to post it anyway because I put in way too much effort