One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
Один поднимает дичь (букв. бьет по кустам), а другой ее ловит. Смысл: один работает, а другой присваивает плоды его труда.
Золото моем, а сами голосом воем.
Другие пословицы:
- Crows do not pick crow's eyes
- As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
- He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- To kill two birds with one stone
- A bird may be known by its song
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- Every ass loves to hear himself bray
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- To put (set) the cart before the horse