You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit
this post was submitted on 25 May 2024
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Lipstick on a pig along with others already mentioned.
cuir síoda ar ghabhar; is gabhar fós é
"You can't put lipstick on a pig" was popular for about a year in the US, circa 2007
You can’t polish a turd.
Having looked at some of the reports I have to clean up, I can tell you that yes, in fact, you CAN polish a turd
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Polish - „you can’t make a whip out of shit” „z gówna bicza nie ukręcisz”
I like this one
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If I understand the original idiom, the nearest French expression would be “you can't make a race horse from a donkey” (“tu ne peux pas faire un cheval de course d'un âne”).
"You can't get blood from a stone" is classic in the US. "No more juice from the squeeze" is another variant.
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In the US there's the saying "you can't squeeze water from a stone"
I always heard it as blood from a stone, but yeah.
Probably the closest in Irish is "is deacair olann a bhaint de ghabhar" (it's hard to get wool from a goat)
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