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:
- To kill two birds with one stone
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- Fish and company stink in three days
- Neither fish nor flesh
- Catch the bear before you sell his skin
- That's a horse of another colour
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- The end crowns the work
- To fish in troubled waters
- All asses wag their ears
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- All lay load on the willing horse
- A bird may be known by its song
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- A wolf in sheep's clothing