Blood is thicker than water
Кровь гуще воды (т. е. узы кровного родства сильнее других уз).
Свой своему поневоле брат. Свой дурак дороже чужого умника. Свое дитя и горбато, да мило.
Другие пословицы:
- One fire drives out another
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- Fools grow without watering
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- To draw water in a sieve
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- Little chips light great fires
- The fat is in the fire
- Still waters run deep
- To build a fire under oneself