An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
Быка берут за рога, а человека - за язык.
Всякая сорока от своего языка погибает. Болтуна язык до добра не доведет. Язык мой - враг мой. Говори, да не проговаривайся.
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- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- Blind men can judge no colours
- A drowning man will catch at a straw
- That's a horse of another colour
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- The voice of one man is the voice of no one
- Children are poor men's riches
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- Crows do not pick crow's eyes
- To fish in troubled waters