To flog a dead horse
Стегать мертвую лошадь (т. е. заниматься явно бесполезным делом).
Голую овцу стричь. Мертвого лечить.
Другие пословицы:
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- A close mouth catches no flies
- A curst cow has short horns
- To kill two birds with one stone
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- Little pigeons can carry great messages
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
- It is a good horse that never stumbles
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth