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:
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To pour water into a sieve
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- The fat is in the fire
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- Blood is thicker than water
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Too much water drowned the miller
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- There is no fire without smoke
- Little chips light great fires
- He will never set the Thames on fire