To draw water in a sieve
Черпать воду решетом.
Решетом воду носить.
Другие пословицы:
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Fools grow without watering
- One fire drives out another
- To fish in troubled waters
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To build a fire under oneself
- Little chips light great fires
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- There is no smoke without fire
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)