He will never set the Thames on fire
Ему никогда Темзы не поджечь.
Он пороху не выдумает. Он с неба звезд не хватает.
Другие пословицы:
- A great ship asks deep waters
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- To draw water in a sieve
- To fish in troubled waters
- One fire drives out another
- Too much water drowned the miller
- Little chips light great fires
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- There is no smoke without fire
- Blood is thicker than water
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea