To pour water into a sieve
Лить воду в решето.
Горох об стену сыпать. Толочь воду в ступе. Воду решетом носить.
Другие пословицы:
- He will never set the Thames on fire
- Blood is thicker than water
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- Too much water drowned the miller
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- A little fire is quickly trodden out
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- One fire drives out another
- To love somebody (something) as the devil loves holy water
- There is no fire without smoke
- The scalded dog fears cold water
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink