The fat is in the fire
Жир уже в огне (т. е. дело уже сделано и уже ничем не поможешь).
Сделанного не воротишь. Спохватился, когда скатился.
Другие пословицы:
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Fools grow without watering
- To fish in troubled waters
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- There is no fire without smoke
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- Blood is thicker than water
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- There is no smoke without fire
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past