The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SOWSEAR which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
What you can't make a silk purse out of, proverbially crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SOWSEAR | 100 % | 7 |
Why may SOWSEAR be the right solution?
The phrase "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" means that you can't turn something of low quality into something of high quality. "SOWSEAR" is a play on words, combining "sow's ear" and "sew" (which means to stitch or mend fabric), to create a new word that sounds similar to "sow's ear".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: What you can't make a silk purse out of, proverbially
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mak
- issue
- net
- spin
- gut
- square
- draw
- contrive
- come
- contrived
- improvise
- cruise
Crossword Answer definitions
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SOWSEAR
- Bad material for a purse?
- Inferior raw material
- No silk purse source, this
- Hardly silk purse material, in an idiom
- Low-quality material, idiomatically
- A rather poor silk purse.
- Poor material for a purse.
- Stuff not useful for purse making.
- It's not a silk purse source, it's said
- You can't make a silk purse out of it, they say