If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow
Только согласись нести теленка, так на тебя целую корову взвалят.
Дай воли на палец - и всю руку откусят.
Другие пословицы:
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- That's a horse of another colour
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- When pigs fly
- Every ass loves to hear himself bray
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- To cook a hare before catching him
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait