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:
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Every bird likes its own nest
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly
- To cook a hare before catching him
- To fish in troubled waters