It's like trying to get blood out of a stone.

Bbbananas | 12:08 Fri 24th Apr 2009 | ChatterBank

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I've just used that expression in an e-mail to the BF. It made me think - who has ever been silly enough to even try? Where does that expression come from? Is it of biblical origin?

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Meaning

You cannot extract what isn't there to begin with.

Origin

First recorded in Giovanni Torriano's Second Alphabet, 1662:

"To go about to fetch bloud out of stones, viz. to attempt what is impossible."

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