A little fire is quickly trodden out
Маленький огонь легко затоптать.
Искру туши до пожара, напасть отводи до удара.
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- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- Little chips light great fires
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- To pour water into a sieve
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- One fire drives out another
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire