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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 151. The proverb today is" You

  • cannot get blood from a stone. " Okay. You can also hear this phrase as you

  • cannot get blood from a turnip too. So either you cannot get blood from a stone

  • or you cannot get blood from a turnip. Okay. Let's continue. The proverb basically

  • means that you cannot expect to get help from someone who refuses to give it to

  • you and also you cannot get money from somebody who simply doesn't have the

  • money. So if he doesn't have the money he can't get it from him. So you cannot get

  • blood from a stone or you cannot get blood from a turnip. All right. Let's

  • continue. This origin could be traced back to Torriano's Piazza Universale the

  • Proverbi Italiani 1662. Yeah. Remember we've... we just covered some other

  • proverbs by him. Remember he had a book of proverbs. So he didn't invent them all

  • but he collected them all and he had him in his book of proverbs. The translated

  • proverb at that time was there's no getting blood out of a wall and then

  • that eventually led to there's no getting blood out of a stone. And in his second

  • edition the proverb he added the proverb there is no getting blood out of a

  • turnip. So that's why we still have both today.

  • They both supposedly you know, came from The Italian proverb book. Let's

  • continue. The proverb was also used by Charles Dickens

  • the famous Charles Dickens. You know in his book, David Copperfield. He used

  • that one. All right and so we just have several examples to cover these here.

  • Number one. There is no use asking your uncle for a loan. He never lends to

  • anyone. It is like getting blood out of a turnip. Okay. So we do use it a lot with

  • money. In this case he's just refusing to help. He probably has the money but he

  • just never lends money to anyone. Okay. And number two

  • here. There is no point to sue him. He doesn't have a penny to his name. You

  • cannot get blood from a stone. So this is a case also at money but, this guy

  • has no money. So no point to sue him. Even if you, you'll probably spend more

  • money try to sue him than the amount of money you'll get back, because he doesn't

  • have any. So in this case, we say you cannot get blood from a stone. The

  • obvious reason for both of these is stone doesn't have any blood. You can break

  • it open. You can do whatever you want. You can put a needle in it. It doesn't matter. It

  • doesn't have any blood and a turnip has no blood. I don't know if you get any

  • juice from a turnip but you're not going to get blood from a turnip. Okay. And let's

  • just look at the last one here Jane will never reveal that secret. You cannot get

  • blood from a stone. Yeah we sometimes use it with when we say some people refuse

  • to tell you something too. So that's why I added this last one. Anyway, I hope you

  • got it. hope you enjoyed it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 151. The proverb today is" You

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英語導師Nick P 箴言(151) "石破天驚 "是指你不能從石頭上取血。 (English Tutor Nick P Proverbs (151) You Cannot Get Blood From a Stone)

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