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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
(
old-fashioned
)
something that you say which means you cannot make a good quality product using bad quality materials
To make chairs that'll last, you need good strong pieces of wood. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
See also:
ear
,
make
,
of
,
out
,
purse
,
silk
Common Names:
Name
Gender
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Usage
Yaromir
-
Medieval Slavic
Eun-Jung
uwn-jung
Korean
Torkel
-
Norwegian, Swedish
Iphigeneia
-
Greek Mythology
Sionann
-
Irish Mythology
Alina
ah-LEE-nah
(German, Italian, Polish)
Romanian, German, Italian, Polish
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