Fish begins to stink at the head
Рыба с головы начинает пахнуть.
Рыба с головы гниет (портится).
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- An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning
- Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
- Fools never know when they are well
- A fool always rushes to the fore
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep
- Soon learnt, soon forgotten
- To cook a hare before catching him
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- A close mouth catches no flies
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- Learn wisdom by the follies of others
- Learn to creep before you leap
- First catch your hare
- It is good fishing in troubled waters