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- can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Be unable to turn something ugly or inferior into something attractive or of value, as in No matter how expensive his clothes, he still looks sloppy-you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear . This expression was already a proverb in the mid-1500s.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Inge | | [indʒ] | |
Nadja | | NAHT-yah (German) | German, Slovene |
Yevgeniya | | yev-GYE-nee-yah, eev-GYE-nee-yah | Russian |
Jacinta | | hah-THEEN-tah (Spanish), hah-SEEN-tah (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish, Portuguese |
Laurena | | - | English (Rare) |
Lupita | | loo-PEE-tah | Spanish |