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:
- To fish in troubled waters
- To draw water in a sieve
- Fools grow without watering
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- There is no fire without smoke
- Little chips light great fires
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To pour water into a sieve
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- A great ship asks deep waters