Slightly familiar phrases
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some russian proverbs....
One would like to eat fish, but would not like to get into the water.
Where something is thin, that's where it tears.
A fly will not get into a closed mouth.
There will be trouble if the cobbler starts making pies.
Any sandpiper is great in his own swamp.
A drop hollows out a stone.
We do not care of what we have, but we cry when it is lost.
Not everyone who has a cowl on is a monk.
Do not dig a hole for somebody else; you yourself will fall into it.
Stretch your legs according to your clothes.
Stormy weather cannot stay all the time, the red sun will come out, too.
The devil is not so frighful as he is painted.
Do not praise yourself while going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle.
You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse.
Cut down the tree that you are able to.
Chickens are counted in autumn.
Do not make an elephant out of a fly.
Do not plant a tree with its root upward.
You do not swap horses while crossing the ford.
Do not teach a pike to swim, a pike knows his own science.
Eggs cannot teach a hen.
Drowing man clutches at straw.
God gives to those who get up early.
An empty barrel makes the greatest sound.
The end is the crown of any work.
One is one's own master on one's own stove.
The tongue speaks, but the head doesn't know.
Every sandpiper praises its own swamp.
There is no evil without good.
“If you don't know how deep the river is, don't step in.”- these are good, I like them, obviously some lost in translation, but good********
- these are good, I like them, obviously some lost in translation, but good