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:
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- To draw water in a sieve
- One fire drives out another
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- The fat is in the fire
- To pour water into a sieve
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- A little fire is quickly trodden out