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Try to do the impossible, as in Getting that bill through the legislature is the same as trying to square the circle . This idiom alludes to the impossibility of turning a circle into a square. John Donne may have been the first to use it ( Sermons , 1624): “Go not thou about to square either circle (God or thyself).”Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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