you can't polish a turd

English

Alternative forms
  • you can't polish shit

Pronunciation
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Proverb

you can't polish a turd

  1. (idiomatic) Something inherently bad cannot be improved.

Translations
something inherently bad cannot be improved — see you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear

See also
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