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:
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- To pour water into a sieve
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- Still waters run deep
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- Fools grow without watering
- The fat is in the fire
- To fish in troubled waters
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- There is no fire without smoke
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Too much water drowned the miller