What is your country's "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"?

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

baseless_discourse@mander.xyz · edit-2 6 months ago

巧妇难为无米之炊 -- "even the cleverest house wife cannot cook without rice".

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viking@infosec.pub · 6 months ago

You can't pick a naked man's pocket.

d41@startrek.website · 6 months ago

That's nature's pocket.

Synthuir@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

“Make sure he doesn’t pick your pocket!”

anarchoilluminati [comrade/them] · 6 months ago

Challenge accepted.

Footnote2669@lemmy.zip · 6 months ago

Polish - „you can’t make a whip out of shit” „z gówna bicza nie ukręcisz”

Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

I think this takes home the prize for weirdest.

down daemon@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

I can sure as hell try

baseless_discourse@mander.xyz · 6 months ago

I imagine it wouldn't hurt as much as a whip, but probably equally intimidating.

SoyViking [he/him] · 6 months ago

In Danish we have "you can't cut the hair off a bald guy"

mayo_cider [he/him] · 6 months ago

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frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml · 6 months ago

Probably the closest in Irish is "is deacair olann a bhaint de ghabhar" (it's hard to get wool from a goat)

ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them] · 6 months ago

You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit

theturtlemoves [he/him] · 6 months ago

You can make cattle feed out of it though.

mayo_cider [he/him] · 6 months ago

Can't demand with a laddle if you are offered a spoonful

Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name] · 6 months ago

it should just be deleted