To draw water in a sieve

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• 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