The ancient peoples quickly found that one does not pour new wine
into old wineskins.
And no one puts new wine
into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.
After all, Jesus torpedoed the conventions of his religious contemporaries by the boatload, once illustrating the point by saying that you can't pour new wine
into old wineskins.
Neither do people put new wine
into old wineskins; but if they do, then the wineskins burst and the wine spills out and the wineskins are ruined.
There is a hint of this in a parable: «No one puts new wine
into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins and then wine and skins are both lost.
Not exact matches
[remember, you can not put
old wine
into new
wineskin, otherwise you end up losing both].