To pour water into a sieve
Лить воду в решето.
Горох об стену сыпать. Толочь воду в ступе. Воду решетом носить.
Другие пословицы:
- Still waters run deep
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- One fire drives out another
- The fat is in the fire
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- Too much water drowned the miller
- To build a fire under oneself
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Fools grow without watering
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past