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!!"

by SarcasticSeminar101 August 03, 2015

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!

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"

by da trick biatch December 28, 2005

you can't polish a turd

unconvincingly attempt to make an irreconcilably bad situation look good.

They're trying to portray the poor financial reports as positive, but you can't polish a turd.

by esmith512 April 21, 2007

you can't polish a turd

An attempt to conceal and/or strive to improve misfortunate genes.

We all know at the end of the day, you can't polish a turd.

Enough said...

you can't polish a turd

by familyguyfanclub October 12, 2010