Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
Законы ловят мух, а шершней отпускают.
Закон, что паутина: шмель проскочит, а муха увязнет. Алтынного вора вешают, полтинного чествуют.
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- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too
- A close mouth catches no flies
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
- A curst cow has short horns
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- The best fish swim near the bottom