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turnips

«I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.»
«Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play»
«This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip»
«I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich (Actress) | Keywords: turnip, turnips
«Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel»
«If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.»
«You can't get blood out of a turnip»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: turnip, turnips
«Do I look like a turnip that just fell off the turnip truck»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: truck, turnip, turnips
«One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground»
«If a man who turnips cries, / Cry not when his father dies, / 'Tis a proof that he had rather/ Have a turnip than a father.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: cries, turnip, turnips