| Silk purse not from this, so Don invests shillings |
The Telegraph Toughie |
12 Mar 2026 |
| You can't make a silk purse out of one |
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| Proverbially you can't make a silk purse from one of these (3'1,3) |
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| "You can't make a silk purse out of a ____" |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
15 Sep 2024 |
| Bad material for a silk purse, proverbially |
New York Times |
31 Mar 2024 |
| You can't make a silk purse from it |
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| What you can't make a silk purse out of, proverbially |
New York Times |
18 Jun 2023 |
| You can't make a silk purse out of it, they say |
Universal |
28 Jul 2019 |
| Unlikely source of a silk purse |
USA Today |
21 Jun 2019 |
| Unlikely source of a silk purse |
New York Times |
28 Feb 2019 |
| Unlikely source of a silk purse |
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| You can't make a silk purse out of it, they say |
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| Unlikely source of a silk purse |
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| Low-quality material, idiomatically |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jun 2018 |
| Low-quality material, idiomatically |
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| Low-quality material, idiomatically |
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| Low-quality material, in a saying |
New York Times |
31 Jan 2016 |
| Low-quality material, in a saying |
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| Inferior raw material |
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| You can't make a silk purse out of it, they say |
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| No silk purse source, this |
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| Hardly silk purse material, in an idiom |
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| Hardly silk purse material, in an idiom |
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| Bad material for a purse? |
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| It's not a silk purse source, it's said |
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| No silk purse source, this |
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| Item unfit for a silk purse |
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| Stuff not useful for purse making. |
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| Poor material for a purse. |
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| A rather poor silk purse. |
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