To pour water into a sieve
Лить воду в решето.
Горох об стену сыпать. Толочь воду в ступе. Воду решетом носить.
Другие пословицы:
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Little chips light great fires
- To build a fire under oneself
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- To go through fire and water (through thick and thin)
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- There is no smoke without fire
- There is no fire without smoke