英语词汇“to be like getting blood out of a turnip”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

o. to be like getting blood out of (also from) a stone: (with reference to obtaining a thing from a person) (originally) to be impossible; (later also in weakened sense) to be extremely difficult. Also in same senses: to be like getting blood out of (or from) a turnip (chiefly North American).

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > achieve the impossible [verb (intransitive)] > attempt the impossible

to be like getting blood out of (or from) a turnip1662

to put the toothpaste back in the tube1975

the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [phrase] > impossibility of exciting pity in the pitiless

to be like getting blood out of (also from) a stone1788

1610 H. Broughton Reuelation Holy Apocalyps (new ed.) xiii. 188 Make blood come out of this stone, to my sight and I will bee a Pseudo-Catholique as yee are.]

1662 G. Torriano 2nd Alphabet Proverbial Phrases 165/1 To go about to fetch bloud out of a turnip, viz. to attempt impossibilities.

1666 G. Torriano Proverbial Phrases 161/2 in Piazza Universale There's no getting of bloud out of that wall.]

1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. iii. xiii. 303 They must have had abilities inherent in them or they could not have been excited, according to that common observation, that it is impossible to get blood out of a stone.

1836 F. Marryat Japhet I. iv. 41 There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xi. 114 Blood cannot be obtained from a stone, neither can anything on account be obtained at present..from Mr. Micawber.

1889 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrong Box 8 ‘You cannot get blood from a stone,’ observed the lawyer.

1938 R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 27 You may as well try to get blood out of a stone as evidence out of a native!

1940 A. E. Hertzler Doctors & Patients (1941) x. 261 The age old difficulty of getting blood out of a turnip.

2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 295 I sigh with frustration. This is like getting blood out of a stone, drawing teeth from a tiger, wrenching dummies from babies.

单词	to be like getting blood out of a turnip
释义	> as lemmas to be like getting blood out of (or from) a turnip o. to be like getting blood out of (also from) a stone: (with reference to obtaining a thing from a person) (originally) to be impossible; (later also in weakened sense) to be extremely difficult. Also in same senses: to be like getting blood out of (or from) a turnip (chiefly North American). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > achieve the impossible [verb (intransitive)] > attempt the impossible to be like getting blood out of (or from) a turnip1662 to put the toothpaste back in the tube1975 the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [phrase] > impossibility of exciting pity in the pitiless to be like getting blood out of (also from) a stone1788 1610 H. Broughton Reuelation Holy Apocalyps (new ed.) xiii. 188 Make blood come out of this stone, to my sight and I will bee a Pseudo-Catholique as yee are.] 1662 G. Torriano 2nd Alphabet Proverbial Phrases 165/1 To go about to fetch bloud out of a turnip, viz. to attempt impossibilities. 1666 G. Torriano Proverbial Phrases 161/2 in Piazza Universale There's no getting of bloud out of that wall.] 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings I. iii. xiii. 303 They must have had abilities inherent in them or they could not have been excited, according to that common observation, that it is impossible to get blood out of a stone. 1836 F. Marryat Japhet I. iv. 41 There's no getting blood out of a turnip. 1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xi. 114 Blood cannot be obtained from a stone, neither can anything on account be obtained at present..from Mr. Micawber. 1889 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrong Box 8 ‘You cannot get blood from a stone,’ observed the lawyer. 1938 R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 27 You may as well try to get blood out of a stone as evidence out of a native! 1940 A. E. Hertzler Doctors & Patients (1941) x. 261 The age old difficulty of getting blood out of a turnip. 2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 295 I sigh with frustration. This is like getting blood out of a stone, drawing teeth from a tiger, wrenching dummies from babies. extracted from bloodn.int. < as lemmas
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