Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
Посади нищего на коня, он и к самому дьяволу отправится.
Посади свинью за стол, она и ноги на стол.
Другие пословицы:
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- When the devil is blind
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly
- Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
- All lay load on the willing horse
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- Needs must when the devil drives
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear)
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- While the grass grows the horse starves