To fish in troubled waters
Ловить рыбку в мутной воде.
Другие пословицы:
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- Lost time is never found again
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- A close mouth catches no flies
- To pour water into a sieve
- All asses wag their ears
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- To kill two birds with one stone