A drowning man will catch at a straw
Утопающий за соломинку схватится.
Утопающий и за соломинку хватается. Кто тонет - нож подай, и за нож ухватится.
Другие пословицы:
- A hungry man is an angry man
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
- Men may meet but mountains never
- Every man has his faults
- Children are poor men's riches
- As plain as the nose on a man's face
- Man proposes but God disposes
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold
- No man is wise at all times
- A man can do no more than he can
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- All men can't be first
- In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve