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:
- A shy cat makes a proud mouse
- The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws
- A close mouth catches no flies
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- Every bird likes its own nest
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- Fish and company stink in three days
- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too
- You cannot flay the same ox twice
- The best fish smell when they are three days old
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
- All lay load on the willing horse