where did the phrase you can get blood out of a turnip come from
Wikipedia:You can't squeeze blood from a turnip You can't squeeze blood from a turnip. â€“ Matt (Casey) Jones
William Edward Hickson The proverb can be traced back to the writings of Thomas H. Palmer in his Teacher's Manual, and The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat.[3]
By the Pricking of My Thumbs The title of the book comes from Act 4, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, when the second witch says:
Gilbert Gottfried In March 2011, Gottfried made a series of jokes on his Twitter account about the