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 pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- To build a fire under oneself
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- There is no smoke without fire
- A great ship asks deep waters
- There is no fire without smoke
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- Fools grow without watering
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea