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:
- One fire drives out another
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- Still waters run deep
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- Too much water drowned the miller
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- To pour water into a sieve
- There is no fire without smoke
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- Little chips light great fires
- Blood is thicker than water