Idioms

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. Please, Dad will never give you money for something so frivolous. You can't get blood from a stone. If you think I'll give you the information you're looking for, you're sorely mistaken! You can't get blood from a stone!

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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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