You can’t make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear.
Rather shocked me when it was said by the headteacher of my children’s primary school, about a mother who kept changing her children’s schools because she felt they weren’t achieving enough.
There was an open door policy and the woman went in every morning to complain to the head about the lack of progress.
The secretary had to pretend a call had come through to get her out of the office.
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