To draw water in a sieve
Черпать воду решетом.
Решетом воду носить.
Другие пословицы:
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- A great ship asks deep waters
- To build a fire under oneself
- To pour water into a sieve
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Fools grow without watering
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- The fat is in the fire
- Too much water drowned the miller