As the old cock crows, so does the young
Как старый петух кукарекает, так и молодой ему вторит.
Молодой петух поет так, как от старого слышал. Маленькая собачка лает - большой подражает.
Другие пословицы:
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- A bird may be known by its song
- All asses wag their ears
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill