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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- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- Neither fish nor flesh
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- To kill two birds with one stone
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
- To cook a hare before catching him
- Crows do not pick crow's eyes