To build a fire under oneself
Под собой разжигать костер.
Самому себе рыть яму. Подрубать сук, на котором сидишь.
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- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- To draw water in a sieve
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
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- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- The fat is in the fire
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- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
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- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
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