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:
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- Crows do not pick crow's eyes
- An ass in a lion's skin
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- A close mouth catches no flies
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- As the old cock crows, so does the young
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- A bird may be known by its song
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue