get blood out of a stone

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if making someone give or tell you something is like getting blood out of a stone, it is very difficult Collecting the rent money from him each month is like getting blood out of a stone. I tried to talk to her, but I may as well have tried to get blood out of a stone.

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Then an apprentice came by, a youth who had often seen me busily digging, and noticing the unusual tears, and struck perhaps by the difference between my garden and the profusion of splendour all around, paused with his barrow on the path in front of me, and remarked that nobody could expect to get blood out of a stone. Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context			get an even break get an eyeful get arms around get around get around the table get around to get around to doing get arse in gear get ass get ass in gear get away get away from get away from it all get away scot-free get away with get away with murder Get away with you! get axed get back at get bearings get behind get bent out of shape get better get beyond a joke get blood from a stone get blood out of a stone get blood up get bowels in an uproar get brain in gear get busy get carried away get claws into get cold feet get comeuppance get cracking Get cracking! get dander up get day in court get down to brass tacks get down to business get down to cases get down to the facts get down to the nitty-gritty get down to the nuts and bolts get drift get ducks in a row get ears pinned back get ears set out get end away get enough nerve up get euchred out of			get back at get back into the swing of things get back into the swing of things get back into the swing of things get back into the swing of things Get Back on the Train Get Back To Me get back to nature get back to nature get back to nature Get Back to Work Get Back to Work get back up get back up get back up get back up get back up Get Backers get bearings get behind get behind Get Behind the Wheel get bent out of shape Get Better Get Better, Not Bitter get beyond a joke get beyond a joke get beyond a joke Get big fast get blood from a stone get blood out of a stone get blood up get bogged down get bogged down get bogged down get bowels in an uproar get brain in gear get breath get breath get breath get breath get breath back get breath back get breath back get breath back get brownie points get burn fingers get burn fingers get burn fingers Get Busy get by get by get by get by get by get by judgment get by the short and curlies get by the short and curlies get by the short and curlies get by the short and curlies get by the short hairs

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