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:
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- It is a good horse that never stumbles
- All asses wag their ears
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
- A curst cow has short horns
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen