A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
Ленивой овце и собственная шерсть тяжела.
Ленивой лошади и хвост в тягость. Проглотить-то хочется, да прожевать лень. Лежебоке и солнце не в пору всходит.
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- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- The best fish smell when they are three days old
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- All asses wag their ears
- Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- To flog a dead horse
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- An ass in a lion's skin
- To kill two birds with one stone
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse