A man cannot give what he has not got.
There is nothing like leather.
It is very hard to shave an egg (Am., Br.).
No man can flay a stone (Am., Br.).
No one can give what he hasn’t got (Am.).
Sue a beggar and get a louse (Br.).
Sue a beggar, and you’ll get a louse (Am.).
You can’t draw water from a dry well (Am.).
You can’t get (pick, take) feathers off a toad (Am.).
You can’t take the shirt off a naked man (Am.).
You go to a goat (an ass) for wool (Br.)
It’s no use crying for the moon;
Where nothing is to be had the king must lose his right.
No one can give what he hasn’t got.
À l’impossible nul n’est tenu.
Только и земли имею, что под ногами.
Ни шиша нет.
Голой овцы не стригут.
На нет и суда нет
Den Nackten kann man nicht ausziehen;
Wer nichts hat, kann nichts geben;
Niemand gibt, was er nicht hat;
Wo nichts ist, da hat auch der Kaiser sein Recht verloren.
Yoktan yonga çıkmaz.