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In the US there’s the saying “you can’t squeeze water from a stone”

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I always heard it as blood from a stone, but yeah.

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Lipstick on a pig along with others already mentioned.

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cuir síoda ar ghabhar; is gabhar fós é

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Yeah, nah .

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New Zealand

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Nah, yeah

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Yeah yeah nah, nah yeah.

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.ǝʇɐɯ ɐu ,ɥɐǝʎ

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it should just be deleted

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“You can’t put lipstick on a pig” was popular for about a year in the US, circa 2007

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