you can't get a quart into a pint pot

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• you can't get a quart into a pint pot — ► you can t get a quart into a pint pot Brit. proverb you cannot achieve the impossible. Main Entry: ↑quart …   English terms dictionary

• you cannot get a quart into a pint pot — A quart is an imperial measure of two pints. The metaphorical phrase to get (or put) a quart into a pint pot is also used. 1896 Daily News 23 July 4 They had been too ambitious. They had attempted what he might describe in homely phrase as… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• quart into a pint pot — (UK)    If you try to put or get a quart into a pint pot, you try to put too much in a small space. (1 quart = 2 pints)   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    To say that you can t put a quart into a pint pot means that you cannot fit something… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• quart — ► NOUN 1) a unit of liquid capacity equal to a quarter of a gallon or two pints, equivalent in Britain to approximately 1.13 litres and in the US to approximately 0.94 litre. 2) N. Amer. a unit of dry capacity equivalent to approximately 1.10… …   English terms dictionary

• Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind …   Proverbs new dictionary

• Adam Bede — Auteur George Eliot Genre Roman Version originale Titre original Adam Bede Éditeur original William Blackwood Sons Langue originale anglais Pays d or …   Wikipédia en Français