you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear
It is not possible to produce something refined, admirable, or valuable from something which is unrefined, unpleasant, or of little or no value.

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学英语单词
actual inventory
acute laryngotracheitis
aircraft launching satellite
antihomophobia
be concentrated on
be more exact
beachlines
Burnett R.
Byelorus, Byelorussia
carboxylate
Chungerpei
Clematoclethra guangxiensis
comparability of life
customless
data-only
dead stall
decatetraenes
deciduomata
different source calibration
DMM (digital multimeter)
Electrogalvanized
electronic privacy (e-privacy)
enumerative classification
equisetic acid
erythrocytolysin
exhaust tumbling mill
extensible operation set
feature extraction method
film-score
focus-pullers
free destination
Freeborn County
garrulax chinensis
ghetto hos
glass dial
go order
gradient descent algorithm
half-a-pint
harmonic (wave)
have a derry on
hbig
hexagonal close packed lattice
homalothecium perimbricatum
hooping cough
hyperbolic metric
irrelevant substance
jet edge
labite
laser facsimile apparatus
limiting sizing
loudness balance
managerial accounting
marine meteorological buoy
master system distribution tape format
Matthews, Brander
mercury helide
meta-sociology
midling
nakib
needle dipping needle
nonelasticized
nonpassengers
Obaix
orienting spreading
ossifying diathesis
osteochondritis vertebralis infantilis
over-english
phenol aldehyde
philtromania
physiological disposition
playfellowship
Priseka
pulaski
pulse trailing-edge time
purchase of ship
pyrogenic
radar detector
Rambouillet, Château de
regraveling
responsible department
retranch
scallard
sectiones cerebelli
short blast
sncos
social and historical philosophy
space physics exploration
standard vision
supersonic airstream
surface electrochemistry
swishly
synecphoneses
tack on
Tala-Tala
thamess
toxin-antitoxin mixture
undercarriage bracing
vibro jigger
web proxy autodiscovery
welding wire for submerged-arc welding
writ of delivery
zinnia acerosas