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 flog a dead horse
- To cook a hare before catching him
- An ass in a lion's skin
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- The best fish smell when they are three days old
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- When pigs fly
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- To fish in troubled waters
- The furthest way about is the nearest way home
- Birds of a feather flock together