polish a turd 

To attempt to put a positive spin or light on something that is clearly shit.

Polish the turd all you want- that movie still sucks.

polish a turd by MaHaBone January 29, 2004

polish a turd 

Methodology behind which junk mortgage backed securities were sold as AAA+ rated investments by Wall Street

Dilbert: Hey Trey! I've got this great idea about how to make even more money - we package up piece of shit mortgages as "investments".

Trey: Sounds like you'll be needing to polish a turd on that.

polish a turd by ItsAJohnson October 14, 2010

Polish a turd 

To describe something that no matter how much effort you put in to clean it... It will always be sh*t.

Boss: Deep clean the bleachers with soap and water.
Worker: Man, that's like 'polishing a turd'- regardless how clean we get them.. They will always get dirty.

Polish a turd- Alter something that can never be forgotten.

Polish a turd by GordoTheGreek June 1, 2016

You can't polish a turd

You can't make something that's not naturally good great even with the hardest attempts.

"After years, he's just never going to change his selfish ways." "Well, you can't polish a turd!!"

You can't polish a turd by SarcasticSeminar101 August 3, 2015

Can't polish a turd 

Despite your best efforts, there are some things you just can't fix/improve.

To point out futile attempts to conceal/change the baisc nature of something.

1) Joe: Danny's back in town. He lost a bunch of weight, got a nose job, got hair plugs and now wears really flashy clothes but he's still one ugly motherfucker.

Jim: Well, you can't polish a turd.

2) The comb-over hairstyle

Can't polish a turd by henryj May 12, 2006

you can't polish a turd

trying to "fix up" a junky car.it cannot be done, give it up!

nathan, sell that cavi!you can't polish a turd!

you can't polish a turd by da trick biatch December 21, 2005

you can't polish a turd

to try to "fix up" an ugly car, or to try to turn a compact rice burner into a race car.

i told that guy trying to pimp a cavi, "you can't polish a turd"

you can't polish a turd by da trick biatch December 28, 2005