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:
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- Blood is thicker than water
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- A great ship asks deep waters
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- One fire drives out another
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- There is no fire without smoke
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- Beware of a silent dog and still water