To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
Отцеживать комара, а проглотить верблюда. Смысл: при невнимании к важному обращать внимание на ничтожные вещи.
За деревьями не видеть леса.
Другие пословицы:
- The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- While the grass grows the horse starves
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- All lay load on the willing horse
- If wishes were horses, beggars might ride
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- A curst cow has short horns
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- Fish begins to stink at the head
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- First catch your hare