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“It follows the old adage that you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear,” Adams said.

Koeman will say you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and that he is doing the very best he possibly can with what is available to him.

As the saying goes, you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA According to the old adage, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. sought to prove that you could in his fourth .

But you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, as the saying is, and you can't turn a negro or maroon into a true fighting man that will never say die.