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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Silk Purse You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's car. "You cannot make a horn of a pig's tail." A sow's ear may somewhat resemble a purse, and a curled pig's tail may somewhat resemble a twisted horn, but a sow's ear cannot be made into a silk purse, nor a pig's tail into a cow's horn. "You cannot make, my lord, I fear, A velvet purse of a sow's ear." Peter Pindar: Lord B. and His Motions. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impossibility | Attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white; skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the air, prendre la lune avec les dents, extract sunbeams from cucumbers, set the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep, rompre l'anguille au genou, be in two places at once. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SILK PURSE |
| Specialty definitions using "SILK PURSE": Barbe. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
silk purse | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-k-l-p-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pusslike. | |
-2 letters: lispers, pulsers, puslike, pussier, spikers, sulkers, sulkier, sulkies, suspire, uprises. | |
-3 letters: issuer, kisser, krises, likers, lisper, perils, pikers, pileus, pisser, pliers, plisse, pluses, prises, pulers, pulser, pulses, purses, sieurs, sirups, skelps, skiers, skirls, slipes, slurps, speils, speirs, spiels, spiers, spiker, spikes, spiles, spires, sprues, sulker, supers, suslik, uprise. | |
-4 letters: ileus, isles, issue. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-k-l-p-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: superslick. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 4C 4B 50 55 52 53 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01001100 01001011 00100000 01010000 01010101 01010010 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I L K   P U R S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 004C 004B 0050 0055 0052 0053 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5343464525055525339 |
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