To pull the chestnuts out of the fire for somebody
Таскать (для кого-нибудь) каштаны из огня.
Чужими руками жар загребать.
Другие пословицы:
- Salt water and absence wash away love
- Out of the frying-pan into the fire
- Soft fire makes sweet malt
- He carries fire in one hand and water in the other
- Beware of a silent dog and still water
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Still waters run deep
- Follow the river and you'll get to the sea
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us
- To draw water in a sieve
- A great ship asks deep waters
- To pour water into a sieve
- As welcome as water in one's shoes
- Too much water drowned the miller