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:
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- Little chips light great fires
- There is no smoke without fire
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- Fools grow without watering
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- Too much water drowned the miller
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- There is no fire without smoke
- Soft fire makes sweet malt