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:
- There is no smoke without fire
- To draw water in a sieve
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- Still waters run deep
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- Little chips light great fires
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- To fish in troubled waters
- Blood is thicker than water
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- One fire drives out another
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- To build a fire under oneself