To draw water in a sieve
Черпать воду решетом.
Решетом воду носить.
Другие пословицы:
- One fire drives out another
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- Fools grow without watering
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- Too much water drowned the miller
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- Little chips light great fires
- Still waters run deep
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Every miller draws water to his own mill