Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear“ and it is a phrase meaning “it is a proverb meaning ‘you can’t make good/valuable/attractive things from naturally inferior/bad/poor materials”.
Example Sentence: Further, would not the wide adoption of xenotransplant procedures diminish the illegal and immoral market in human organs, where people, even children, are abducted so that their organs can be harvested? In school we were taught to memorise proverbs. I never quite understood the saying, ‘You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear’. Now I do. You can.
This phrase is present in The Hindu article Can you make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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