A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Лучше одна птичка в руках, чем две в кустах.
Синица в руках - лучше соловья в лесу. Не сули журавля в небе, а дай синицу в руки. Ближняя соломка лучше дальнего сенца. Лучше воробей в руке, чем петух на кровле.
Другие пословицы:
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- When pigs fly
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- Catch the bear before you sell his skin
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- An ass in a lion's skin
- Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- To kill two birds with one stone
- To cook a hare before catching him