The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
Мельница не может молоть на утекшей воде.
Что было, то сплыло. Что прошло, того не воротишь.
Другие пословицы:
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Fools grow without watering
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- To draw water in a sieve
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- There is no smoke without fire
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- The fat is in the fire