quart

by the (unit)

For each unit, as of items sold in this manner. How much does this meat cost by the pound?
See also: by

fit a quart into a pint pot

To cram too much into a small container or space. (A quart is a larger amount than a pint, so getting a quart into a pint pot is impossible.) Primarily heard in UK. A: "Just sit on my suitcase while I try zipping it again." B: "Oh, quit trying to fit a quart into a pint pot."
See also: fit, pint, pot, quart

get a quart into a pint pot

To cram too much into a small container or space. (A quart is a larger amount than a pint, so getting a quart into a pint pot is impossible.) Primarily heard in UK. A: "Just sit on my suitcase while I try zipping it again." B: "Oh, quit trying to get a quart into a pint pot."
See also: get, pint, pot, quart

you can't get a quart into a pint pot

proverb It is useless trying to fit something into a container or area that is simply too small to contain it. (A quart is a larger amount than a pint, so getting a quart into a pint pot is physically impossible.) A: "I'm sure I can make it all fit! Just sit on my suitcase while I try zipping it up again." B: "Oh, give it a rest already. You can't get a quart into a pint pot." A: "She thinks she's going to fit into that dress for her wedding, but you can't get a quart into a pint pot." B: "Oh, Martha, what a mean thing to say!"
See also: get, pint, pot, quart
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

You cannot get a quart into a pint pot.

Prov. You cannot fit too much of something into a space that is too small. That dog is simply too big to get into this kennel. You can't get a quart into a pint pot. Our refrigerator isn't big enough to fit that watermelon in. You can't get a quart into a pint pot.
See also: cannot, get, pint, pot, quart
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

fit a quart into a pint pot

or

squeeze a quart into a pint pot

BRITISH
If someone is trying to fit a quart into a pint pot or squeeze a quart into a pint pot, they are trying to put a large amount of something into a container or space that is too small. In putting together a `brief' article on the Tay Bridge Disaster, I was faced with the problem of fitting a quart into a pint pot, there being so much material available. We're trying to squeeze a quart into a pint pot in terms of the amount of time we have to cover everything. Note: Other verbs can be used instead of fit or squeeze. `The builders tried to put a quart into a pint pot,' he commented, pointing to the narrow space between the house and its neighbours either side. Note: A quart is a unit of measure for liquids. It is equal to two pints.
See also: fit, pint, pot, quart
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

get (or fit) a quart into a pint pot

attempt to do the impossible, especially when this takes the form of trying to fit something into a space that is too small. British
See also: get, pint, pot, quart
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

get/pour/put a ˌquart into a pint ˈpot

(British English) try to do something impossible, especially to try to put something into a space which is too small for it: 30 people in this small room! You can’t put a quart into a pint pot, you know.
A pint is 0.568 litres and a quart is 1.136 litres.
See also: get, pint, pot, pour, put, quart
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
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  • fit a quart into a pint pot
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  • get/pour/put a quart into a pint pot
  • pint
  • cram in
  • cram into
  • cram into (something)
  • cram together
  • jam in
  • swot up (on something)
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This is evident in a piece that Ehrenreich and Quart co-authored for The New York Review of Books about the #MeToo movement.
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"Each story was like a tiny detail in a giant oil painting that allowed me to understand the whole picture in a different way" Quart writes.
SQUEEZED
Quart argues that during the past decade or so America's youth, egged on by their parents, have become wedded to consumption as personal identity: You are what you buy.
Teenage wasteland: critics on the left and right falsely portray kids as passive victims of mass media
Without calling ahead, I'd driven to Polly's and dropped off three quarts of vegetable-beef soup.
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They want to be highly leveraged brands." It is this corporate colonization of teenagers' hearts and minds that Quart describes best.
Exploitation as cool
Quart wants to prove that today's "branded" teens are a new breed, but her argument overreaches.
Branded: the Buying and Selling of Teenagers
Children, Quart argues, have been transformed into "victims of the contemporary luxury economy." To her, the villains in this case are obvious: They are the corporations that heartlessly market to underage consumers, slavering after the annual $155 billion in discretionary income Quart says they control (although the source of that figure is not cited).
Sales to minors: can commercial culture possibly corrupt today's teens more than it did their parents?
Place 1 quart of above sauce in a heavy sauce pan and bring to a boil, lowering heat to a simmer and reduce quantity by 1/2 to 2/3.
Tomato lover shares his secrets. (The country kitchen)
You should put 5 quarts of water in a 7 or 8 quart pot!
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Just a little more than the quart of liquid we're used to.
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Birches also produce plenty of water, so it takes about 26 gallons of sap to make just one quart of syrup.
PASS THE BIRCH SYRUP, PLEASE
By examining imagery intended to present analogies between the secular and the divine, Randall finds a desire for resemblance in all the writers studied, and, paradoxically, that it is Jean Molinet who appears most skeptical of the powers of analogical representation, although Rabelais in the Quart livre comes close.
Building Resemblance: Analogical Imagery in the Early French Renaissance
Stir, add ice cubes and pour in one quart of club soda.
Rums with punch; great rum punch recipes for summer entertaining