.ǝʇɐɯ ɐu ,ɥɐǝʎ

Nah, yeah

New Zealand

I dunno, man... Look up coprolite. You can absolutely polish them.

Having looked at some of the reports I have to clean up, I can tell you that yes, in fact, you CAN polish a turd

I think this takes home the prize for weirdest.

I can sure as hell try

I like this one

Oh my god, I did not expect to be hit with the wisdom stick THAT hard

Dare I ask which country speaks words that cannot be truer.

Edit: saw your instance...

That's nature's pocket.

Challenge accepted.

The proverb you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear means you can’t create a fine product from inferior materials.

I'd argue it's closer to 朽木不可雕^. 巧婦難為無米之炊 (巧妇难为无米之炊) is more like you can't make stuff without the necessary requirements.

^朽木不可雕: Lit. Rotten wood can't be carved, metaphorically You can’t teach a student that is too dumb.

... Well actually no. Upon looking into these 3 idioms further while composing this comment, I leaned more and more towards that 巧婦難為無米之炊 is actually closer. Why? Because 朽木不可雕 applies only to humans and it puts more of a focus on the rotten wood (aka the dumb student).

I guess this comment was kind of useless lol but I decided to post it anyway because I put in way too much effort

Depends where you live I guess. Mohair and cashmere come from goats.

Isn't there literally a German fairy tale about someone able to make straw into gold?

German for "like father, like son" is "the apple doesn't fall far off the tree trunk". But many people nowadays use "the apple doesn't fall far off the pear tree", which is a variant that I think originally was supposed to suggest illegitimate fatherhood.

A golden ring specifically

I always heard it as blood from a stone, but yeah.