What is your country's "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"? - minie4's Lemmy

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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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What is your country’s “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”?

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Probably the closest in Irish is “is deacair olann a bhaint de ghabhar” (it’s hard to get wool from a goat)
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  Depends where you live I guess. Mohair and cashmere come from goats.

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