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 strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- A close mouth catches no flies
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- To flog a dead horse
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- First catch your hare
- Every ass loves to hear himself bray
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- That's a horse of another colour
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- To cook a hare before catching him
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth