يعمل من الفسيخ شربات

English translation: get blood out of a stone

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Arabic term or phrase:يعمل من الفسيخ شربات
English translation:get blood out of a stone
Entered by: Muhammad Atallah

09:59 Dec 7, 2009
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Insurance / idiom
Arabic term or phrase: يعمل من الفسيخ شربات
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Dina 13
get water from a stone
Explanation:
get water from a stone
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Muhammad Atallah
Egypt
Local time: 17:29
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or to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
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Summary of answers provided
3 +5get water from a stone
Muhammad Atallah
5making something from/out of nothing
Mohamed A. Moustafa


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
get water from a stone


Explanation:
get water from a stone

Muhammad Atallah
Egypt
Local time: 17:29
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
or to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mohamed Abdel-Moneim: Good approach Muhammad.
23 mins

agree  Miftah Muman
1 hr

neutral  Maureen Millington-Brodie: the expression is "get blood out of a stone"
8 hrs
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agree  siba chehab
10 hrs

agree  Steve Booth: I agree with your gist but the english saying is as Mbrodie said 'get blood out of a stone' I know the link you gave says water but that is a latin quote directly translated into english
10 hrs

agree  sarax999
2 days 2 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
making something from/out of nothing


Explanation:
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Mohamed A. Moustafa
United States
Native speaker of: Arabic
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