You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear Home The Lexicon You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear Thumbnail Phrase or WordYou can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s earDefinitionYou can’t make something refined out of poor-quality material.LanguageEnglishTypeFaunamorphSubcategoryPorcinesGrammatical SubcategorySayings/Similes/Aphorisms/Proverbs Previous itemYou can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig Next itemLike casting pearls before swine
