An unfortunate man would be drowned in a tea-cup.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- From bad to worse.
- Our day will come.
- One man's meat is another man's poison.
- It never rains but it pours.
- A drowning man will catch at a straw.
- Fortune is blind.
- Even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea.
- It is not work that kills but worry.
- Misfortunes never come alone.
- Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
- While the grass grows, the horse starves.
- He dances well to whom fortune pipes.
- Every flow has its ebb.
- Bread never falls but on its buttered side.
- Whom God loves, his bitch brings forth pigs.
- Into the mouth of a bad dog often falls a good bone.
- Rust eats up iron.