To put (set) the cart before the horse
Поставить повозку впереди лошади. Смысл: поступать шиворот-навыворот.
Начинать не с того конца. Надевать хомут с хвоста. Начать строить дом с крыши. Садить дерево корнем кверху.
Другие пословицы:
- To cook a hare before catching him
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- A bird may be known by its song
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- To flog a dead horse
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- He that will steal an egg will steal an ox
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly