What is your country's "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear"?frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 66 points – 4 months ago68Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsI guess we use "Making gold from straw" (German).Isn't there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?Rumpelstiltskin. Naomi Novik wrote a lovely book inspired by it called “Spinning Silver.”Yes, that's where it's from.
I guess we use "Making gold from straw" (German).Isn't there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?Rumpelstiltskin. Naomi Novik wrote a lovely book inspired by it called “Spinning Silver.”Yes, that's where it's from.
Isn't there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?Rumpelstiltskin. Naomi Novik wrote a lovely book inspired by it called “Spinning Silver.”Yes, that's where it's from.
I guess we use "Making gold from straw" (German).
Isn't there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?
Rumpelstiltskin.
Naomi Novik wrote a lovely book inspired by it called “Spinning Silver.”
Yes, that's where it's from.