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:
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too
- All lay load on the willing horse
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- First catch your hare
- As the old cock crows, so does the young
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- A bird may be known by its song
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- To cook a hare before catching him
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- All is fish that comes to his net