you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
sayingused to mean that you cannot make something good out of something that is naturally bad
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unachievable
- be (a) no go idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- be out of your league idiom
- cat
- elusive
- impossible
- impossibly
- impracticable
- in/out of the running idiom
- infeasible
- inoperable
- league
- love
- no way idiom
- nohow
- running
- unfeasible
- unworkable
- way
- will-o'-the-wisp
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