Sentences with phrase «silk purse»

They didn't manage to make silk purses out of your sow's ears.

Creator of silk purses from sow's ears.

The foregoing is the current personal opinion of Brian Martindale, and in no way is intended to smear the reputations of the many good, honest, hard - working Realtors (not necessarily high fliers) of well - earned professional repute... acquired by - the - way in spite of Organized Real Estate's wayward attempts to turn too many dues - paying sow's ears into silk purses.

Wedding Look: Green dress Gold shoes (which I broke swing dancing) Green silk purse Hair: French twist with real orchids Nails: pale pink Eyes: Smokey Lips: Neutral Reason for going against advice on the dress: There was WAY too much cleavage in the blue dress... like indecent amounts of cleavage.

There's nothing in Unchained that screams «Oscar - nominated epic», but darned if Tarantino doesn't create the proverbial silk purse.

The article tries to help you avoid rookie mistakes, and turn your sow's ear into an imitation silk purse.

Perhaps more amazing still is how Gazoo Racing has turned the roughest of supermini sow's ears into a really desirable silk purse.

Indeed, the latest performance version of the much maligned Camaro is proof positive that if you're willing to throw enough high - tech and high - priced (the Z / 28 will retail for $ 77,400) performance parts at something, you can turn a ponderously steering sow's ear into a corner - carving silk purse.

Pig's ears can not easily be converted into silk purses just because a few answers have initially been answered correctly on a piece of paper after a couple of weeks in a classroom or in front of a computer screen... three times over.

Speaker Paul Ryan is still trying to make a silk purse from the porcine ear of his tax scam.

The good news is, like you say, you can always make a silk purse out of these sows ears... Not a very yummy similie, but apt.

Irresistible packaging supplied by the company's in - house marketing company is an important part of the marketing equation, but as the old saying goes, no amount of marketing can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

silk purse and sows ear come to mind.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear and we first need to get rid of the proverbial sows ears, all of whom are stopping our once great and honestly run club, from even attempting the silk purse we all crave.

Giroud is the «sow's ear» who can not become a «silk purse».

My confidence in Callahan is significantly less than my confidence in Tomsula in producing «silk purses».

«Newsflash you pompous old git chips, those ignorant fans paid for your range rover and your wife's facelift (not that it did much good, silk purse and sow's ears and all that...) so you should show some respect to the people who pay over the odds so you can quaff champers at breakfast».

We wiill never win the league with an ageing once - great goalie, a midfield that has no pace, who are then lost when we lose possession, and a manager who still thinks he is coach enough to turn a sow's ear Into a silk purse.

It would certainly be nice to have school food more closely resemble chef - prepared restaurant food, but you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, or a tasty school lunch out of ground beef with «unidentifiable chunks of stuff» in it.

Try as he might, even Rasmussen can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Science Careers interviewed McElroy — first by telephone and then by e-mail — and asked him about losing his job at Pfizer, developing his business idea, and his attempt to make a silk purse — a new business — from a sow's ear.

But can these pioneering firms spin a silk purse from a sow's rear?

Talk about turning a sow's ear into a silk purse!!

Secretary Kerry hopes to re-energize the peace process by making a silk purse out of the Arab Peace Initiative... Other notable Jewish sites in eastern Jerusalem, dating back to the 1930s, include the Jewish National Library, Hadassah...

Arab 100 Dating Sites Secretary Kerry hopes to re-energize the peace process by making a silk purse out of the Arab Peace Initiative... Other notable Jewish sites in eastern Jerusalem, dating back to the 1930s, include the Jewish National Library, Hadassah... Saudi Arabia is as... and archaeological sites that date back to the pre-Islamic era.

Secretary Kerry hopes to re-energize the peace process by making a silk purse out of the Arab Peace Initiative... Other notable Jewish sites in eastern Jerusalem, dating back to the 1930s, include the Jewish National Library, Hadassah... Saudi Arabia is as... and archaeological sites that date back to the pre-Islamic era.

... they can't make a silk purse out of the sow's ear that is this formulaic bachelor party / bucket list buddy comedy.

However, they can't make a silk purse out of the sow's ear that is this formulaic bachelor party / bucket list buddy comedy.

Exclusive to Warner's exceptional Tennessee Williams box set, Tennessee Williams» South looks horrendous through no fault of the DVD transfer: It's a 16 mm documentary produced for television in 1973; no amount of scrubbing is going to turn this sow's ear into a silk purse.

Trailer Highlight: Rudd, frantically trying to spin a silk purse out of the sow's ear he was handed with this script.

The silk purse in question is a play with a considerable pedigree.

«In fact my last ex, Gavin Mitchell, is the production designer on this film, because I knew he would make a silk purse out of a sow's ear — and he did.»

Granted, I probably shouldn't blame author EL James for the script's failings, but on the other hand, this seems like «silk purse / sow's ear» territory where screenwriter Kelly Marcel had to make do with what James gave her.

All she does is wait and fret, but Williams makes a silk purse from it with her internalized pain and her expressive eyes; it's the best «waiting wife» performance since Kathleen Quinlan's in Apollo 13 (1995).

Be skeptical when a research analyst tells you he has fashioned a silk purse out of the proverbial sow's ear.

Goodbye, sow's ear; hello, silk purse.

On the table next to me is the silk purse that holds my mother's pearls and beside it is the ebony box whose treasure I am only now beginning to understand.

Second, you have to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear.

The exploitation, as such, was not taking gobs of money out of authors pockets and lining the silk purses of publishers.

And what about the potential opportunity cost — is it better to redeploy your funds, rather than hanging on & hoping for a silk purse out of a possible pig's ear?

As the old saying goes - you can't make a silk purse from a sows ear.

ever heard the expression «you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear»?!!!

Robert Ouellette sews a silk purse out of a sow's ear at Corporate Knights, a Canadian Environmental / business mag and website: