To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
Добавлять топливо (масло) в огонь.
Подлить масла в огонь. Огонь маслом заливать - лишь огня прибавлять.
Другие пословицы:
- There is no fire without smoke
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- To draw water in a sieve
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- Too much water drowned the miller
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- A great ship asks deep waters
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- To pour water into a sieve
- Still waters run deep