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:
- As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- Catch the bear before you sell his skin
- To cook a hare before catching him
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- To fish in troubled waters
- All is fish that comes to his net
- The end crowns the work
- Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- Little pigeons can carry great messages
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse