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单词 square the circle
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square the circle


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).”

Words nearby square the circle

square shooter, square-shouldered, square splice, squaresville, squaretail, square the circle, square tin, squaretoed, square-toes, square up, square wave
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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