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Trying to get water out of a stone 

To try to achieve an impossible outcome or result.
I told Bob that trying to sue the restaurant for being too noisy would be like trying to get water out of a stone.

waterstone 

1.to do something spaztically
2.to fluke something and do well against odds
3.someone up-market and upperclass, derived from the up-market bookshop name
"man that girl just did a waterstone"
waterstone by Rosie james March 6, 2007