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:
- Fish begins to stink at the head
- Neither fish nor flesh
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow
- Curiosity killed a cat
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- The early bird catches the worm
- Love me, love my dog
- Every bird likes its own nest
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- Fish and company stink in three days
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- Care killed the cat