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:
- Little pigeons can carry great messages
- It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest
- Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl
- It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse
- Many a good cow has a bad calf
- To cook a hare before catching him
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
- As the old cock crows, so does the young
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese