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@frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1Y
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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  • föderal umdrehen
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    18•1Y

    I guess we use “Making gold from straw” (German).

    • @BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
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      4•1Y

      Isn’t there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?

      • föderal umdrehen
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        4•1Y

        Yes, that’s where it’s from.

      • Dojan
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        6•1Y

        Rumpelstiltskin.

        Naomi Novik wrote a lovely book inspired by it called “Spinning Silver.”

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