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 burnt child dreads the fire
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Little chips light great fires
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- Blood is thicker than water
- To pour water into a sieve
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- Still waters run deep
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry