To flog a dead horse
Стегать мертвую лошадь (т. е. заниматься явно бесполезным делом).
Голую овцу стричь. Мертвого лечить.
Другие пословицы:
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- Neither fish nor flesh
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- To buy a pig in a poke
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- First catch your hare
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- As the old cock crows, so does the young
- To kill two birds with one stone
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none