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
- Fools grow without watering
- To build a fire under oneself
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- Too much water drowned the miller
- There is no fire without smoke
- To draw water in a sieve
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody