To pour water into a sieve
Лить воду в решето.
Горох об стену сыпать. Толочь воду в ступе. Воду решетом носить.
Другие пословицы:
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- Blood is thicker than water
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- Fools grow without watering
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- Little chips light great fires
- Too much water drowned the miller
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- To build a fire under oneself
- There is no fire without smoke
- One fire drives out another
- The scalded dog fears cold water