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:
- Neither fish nor flesh
- A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- The early bird catches the worm
- He that will steal an egg will steal an ox
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- Don't sell the bear's skin before you've caught it
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- When pigs fly
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- To fish in troubled waters
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing