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This blog was oringally intended to help accustom Rusian su8ers of English to use the langauge with wit, accruacy and decorum. Now, it mainly concneres books that I recommend. I hope you find it useful.

14 June 2015

Another useful English expression

Good English expression:
"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=462909923875507&set=pcb.462909940542172&type=1

Click on the link and, if you can guess what the original was like, you have understood the meaning of "sow's ear" and hopefully, by extension the inference behind "silk purse".




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