The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
Кошка хотела бы рыбы поесть, да лапки замочить боится.
И хочется, и колется. Проглотить-то хочется, да прожевать-то лень.
Другие пословицы:
- Every dog has his day
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep
- To fish in troubled waters
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none
- A close mouth catches no flies
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- Dumb dogs are dangerous
- Love me, love my dog
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
- As the old cock crows, so does the young
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- Birds of a feather flock together