you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
можно предоставить кому-либо возможность, но нельзя заставить делать что-либо силой
Alec was given the opportunity to study at a community college, but he decided not to enter the college. Well, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.
Другие идиомы:
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- get off one's high horse
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- back the wrong horse
- on horseback
- dark horse
- straight from the horse's mouth
- work like a horse
- horse sense
- hold one's horses
- put the cart before the horse
- horse of a different color
- bet on the wrong horse
- horse trade