To pour water into a sieve
Лить воду в решето.
Горох об стену сыпать. Толочь воду в ступе. Воду решетом носить.
Другие пословицы:
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- Fools grow without watering
- To fish in troubled waters
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- We never know the value of water till the well is dry
- Too much water drowned the miller
- To draw water in a sieve
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- Between the devil and the deep (blue) sea
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Still waters run deep