polish a turd

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,vulgar)To work on atime-consumingand ultimately pointless or impossible task; to try to perfect what is inherently bad.Near-synonym:put lipstick on a pig2006, Michael Fak,Portions of a Life: Recollections and Reflections, page197:Demaso, trying hard to scrub a wall behind one of the toilets, started complaining how dirty the walls in the entire bathroom were. Tripp also chimed in that they werepolishing a turdand that what the bathroom needed was a fresh coat of paint.

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