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:
- To flog a dead horse
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- All lay load on the willing horse
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- To fish in troubled waters
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- Fish and company stink in three days
- The early bird catches the worm
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare