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:
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- You cannot teach old dogs new tricks
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- All cats are grey in the dark (in the night)
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- To kill two birds with one stone
- The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on
- A good dog deserves a good bone
- That cock won't fight
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- He that lies down with dogs must rise up with fleas
- Dog eats dog
- When the cat is away, the mice will play
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep