• КАКОВ ПОП, ТАКОВ И ПРИХОД
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⇒ as a leader behaves, so do his subordinates, followers etc:
- - judge the flock by its priest;
- like priest, like people;
- like master, like man.
♦ "А что ты делал в моём САДУ?" - "Малину крал", - отвечал мальчик с большим равнодушием. "Ага, слуга в барина, каков поп, таков и приход..."(Пушкин 1). "What were you doing in my garden?" "I was stealing raspberries," the boy replied with great equanimity. "Aha! Like master, like servant. Judge the flock by its priest" (1b).
Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь. — М.: ACT-ПРЕСС КНИГА. С.И. Лубенская. 2004.