An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup
Неудачника можно утопить и в чашке.
Когда не везет, утонешь и в ложке воды. На бедного Макара все шишки валятся.
Другие пословицы:
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold
- Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- One man, no man
- A man can die but once
- Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- Every man to his taste
- Calamity is man's true touchstone
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Blind men can judge no colours
- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes
- If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle
- No man is wise at all times