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:
- First catch your hare
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- Every bird likes its own nest
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- Fish and company stink in three days
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- An ass in a lion's skin
- Birds of a feather flock together
- To run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- He that will steal an egg will steal an ox
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole