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:
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- Catch the bear before you sell his skin
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- He that will steal an egg will steal an ox
- First catch your hare
- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- Fish and company stink in three days
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Every ass loves to hear himself bray