Never offer to teach fish to swim
Никогда не предлагай рыбе научить ее плавать.
Не учи рыбу плавать. Не учи ученого. Ученого учить, все равно что портить.
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- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse
- Fish and company stink in three days
- To kill two birds with one stone
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- When pigs fly
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep
- A wolf in sheep's clothing