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:
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- The voice of one man is the voice of no one
- All men can't be masters
- Judge not of men and things at first sight
- Calamity is man's true touchstone
- Men may meet but mountains never
- All men can't be first
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- Gluttony kills more men than the sword
- Every man to his taste
- Hope is the poor man's bread
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will
- No living man all things can
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice