Hello everyone. Can you help me with this phrase:
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. What does it mean?
idiomatic construction
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"If something isn't very good to start with, you can't do much to improve it."Dextral wrote:Hello everyone. Can you help me with this phrase:
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. What does it mean?