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
- To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese
- That's a horse of another colour
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- It is good fishing in troubled waters