🇬🇧 en it 🇮🇹

make a silk purse of a sow's ear verb

  • (idiomatic) To produce something refined, admirable, or valuable from something which is unrefined, unpleasant, or of little or no value.
 cavar sangue da una rapa, cavare sangue da una rapa
you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
chi bestia va a Roma, bestia ritorna
Wiktionary Links