To pour water into a sieve
Лить воду в решето.
Горох об стену сыпать. Толочь воду в ступе. Воду решетом носить.
Другие пословицы:
- A great ship asks deep waters
- Every miller draws water to his own mill
- The mill cannot grind with the water that is past
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- A burnt child dreads the fire
- There is no fire without smoke
- To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
- Too much water drowned the miller
- One fire drives out another
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- To draw water in a sieve
- To fish in troubled waters
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames)
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink