Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
Законы ловят мух, а шершней отпускают.
Закон, что паутина: шмель проскочит, а муха увязнет. Алтынного вора вешают, полтинного чествуют.
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- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- The best fish smell when they are three days old
- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too
- Neither fish nor flesh
- To cook a hare before catching him
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- Fish begins to stink at the head
- To fish in troubled waters
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- He that will steal an egg will steal an ox