A bird may be known by its song
Птицу можно узнать по тому, как она поет (букв. по ее песне).
Видна птица по полёту.
Другие пословицы:
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too
- Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow
- A curst cow has short horns
- An ass in a lion's skin
- To cook a hare before catching him
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold