To draw water in a sieve
Черпать воду решетом.
Решетом воду носить.
Другие пословицы:
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- To fish in troubled waters
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- To pour water into a sieve
- To build a fire under oneself
- One fire drives out another
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Blood is thicker than water
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- He will never set the Thames on fire