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.
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- To cook a hare before catching him
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- To flog a dead horse
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- To eat the calf in the cow's belly
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
- Birds of a feather flock together
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- Neither fish nor flesh
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- Every ass loves to hear himself bray
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- The end crowns the work