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When it comes to Dick Cheney .. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear come to mind.
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Like seriously, I can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, if I'm given enough free reign to do so.
I Mean You. karenhealey 2010
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It will rather declare that the fruits of 1 & 2 were the sow's ear, and must now be re-thunk.
Leadership 2010
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She identified some of the chickens, especially an obstreperous old hen who resented the thrust of the sow's muzzle, particularly pecked at the little pigs, and laid about her with a vengeance when the grain fell.
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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The strategy will be filled with data from quantitative and qualitative research, it will have lots of graphs and graphics, and it will answer the question - how do we turn our sow's ear into a silk purse?
Students 2010
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It will rather declare that the fruits of 1 & 2 were the sow's ear, and must now be re-thunk.
Students 2010
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The strategy will be filled with data from quantitative and qualitative research, it will have lots of graphs and graphics, and it will answer the question - how do we turn our sow's ear into a silk purse?
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The strategy will be filled with data from quantitative and qualitative research, it will have lots of graphs and graphics, and it will answer the question - how do we turn our sow's ear into a silk purse?
Leadership 2010
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It will rather declare that the fruits of 1 & 2 were the sow's ear, and must now be re-thunk.
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Sort of like making a silk purse out of a sow's ear?
Scientists meet to save Lascaux cave from fungus The Nag 2009
GHibbs commented on the word sow's
A sow's is the possessive of the noun sow, female pig. There is a regional variant of the idiom 'He made a dog's ear of it', that substitutes sow for dog. He made a sow's ear of it.'
February 1, 2014