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Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago

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

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

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Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months ago

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I guess we use “Making gold from straw” (German).
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  Isn’t there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?
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    Yes, that’s where it’s from.

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