you can't get a quart into a pint pot
English
Alternative forms
- you can't fit a quart into a pint pot
- you can't put a quart into a pint pot
Proverb
you can't get a quart into a pint pot
- You cannot get too much of something to fit into something small.
- They've asked me to get to New York by five o'clock, but you can't get a quart into a pint pot!