square peg (in a round hole)
informala person whose character makes them unsuitable for the job or other position they are in:
He never quite fitted in when he was working here - he was always a bit of a square peg.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unsuitable and unacceptable
- amiss
- beneath your dignity idiom
- beyond
- beyond the pale idiom
- delegitimize
- grain
- improper
- inapt
- incorrect
- indecent
- ineligible
- infelicitous
- not cricket idiom
- offend
- offend against sth
- raffish
- room
- that will never do! idiom
- unfit
- vulgar
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