To flog a dead horse
Стегать мертвую лошадь (т. е. заниматься явно бесполезным делом).
Голую овцу стричь. Мертвого лечить.
Другие пословицы:
- To buy a pig in a poke
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- To fish in troubled waters
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- That's a horse of another colour
- A bird may be known by its song
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
- A curst cow has short horns
- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too