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turd polish

to spin, embellish, spin, puff, enhance, enrich, exaggerate, gild and generally lie like a motherfucker about something to make it seem better and more desirable than it really is
you: "man, you should have seen the girl I fucked last night. she was smokin' hot and craving my johnson juice."
me: "what a load of turd polish asswipe. I did see her. what a toothless skank whore."
you: "well, you can't have everything."
me: "well, i guess it is better than nothing. what's her number?"

Conventional Wisdom:
"you can polish a turd, but it's still a piece of shit."
turd polish by spiderbesideher September 24, 2009
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turd polish

turd polish the act of applying nice things to somthing that is a peice of crap in order to hide the fact it is a turd
tom bought a crappy car so puts {turd polish} spinners on it.
turd polish by sonicwarhawk December 9, 2005

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!!"

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

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

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

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"