Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
He сжигай своего, дома, чтобы избавиться от мышей.
Осердясь на блох, да и шубу в печь.
Другие пословицы:
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- Curses like chickens come home to roost
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- To flog a dead horse
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
- A curst cow has short horns
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- That's a horse of another colour
- Wealth is nothing without health
- To give a lark to catch a kite