get blood from a stone

To do something that is very hard to accomplish, especially when dealing with other people in some way. Good luck getting a group of toddlers to sit still—it's like getting blood from a stone.

See also: blood, get, stone

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

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get blood out of a stone
wring water from a stone
wring water out of a stone
blood out of a stone
like getting blood out of/from a stone
like getting blood from a stone
like getting blood out of a stone
like getting blood out of a turnip
like getting blood from a turnip
you can't get blood out of a turnip

References in periodicals archive

Never mind conventional wisdom; you can get blood from a stone. Anthropologists have extracted the blood of humans, sheep and an extinct form of cattle from the surface of a stone slab at an approximately 10,000-year-old agricultural village in Turkey.

Ritual clues flow from prehistoric blood

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释义	get blood from a stone get blood from a stone To do something that is very hard to accomplish, especially when dealing with other people in some way. Good luck getting a group of toddlers to sit still—it's like getting blood from a stone. See also: blood, get, stone Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: get blood out of a stone wring water from a stone wring water out of a stone blood out of a stone like getting blood out of/from a stone like getting blood from a stone like getting blood out of a stone like getting blood out of a turnip like getting blood from a turnip you can't get blood out of a turnip References in periodicals archive Never mind conventional wisdom; you can get blood from a stone. Anthropologists have extracted the blood of humans, sheep and an extinct form of cattle from the surface of a stone slab at an approximately 10,000-year-old agricultural village in Turkey. Ritual clues flow from prehistoric blood
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