Sentence examples for be the square peg from inspiring English sources

"I always encourage my students to be the square peg," Ms. Frink said in 2011.

"Despite his skills, he seems fated to be hired, then forced to be the square peg that TV executives try to fit into a round hole," said his agent, Jean Sage, who told Olbermann last January to ponder his next career move as his Fox deal expires on Dec. 31.

I didn't want to be the square peg going into a round hole.

Fine, but how far will he go (and can he go) not to be the square peg?

"Any broker can do the smooth deals, but Iris's specialty is fitting the square peg in the round hole," Mr. Nadler said.

It seems like they're shoving the square peg of their data down the round hole of the Apple UI with no appreciation for how an end user will utilize this information.

"I think he's trying to fit the square peg of New York into the round hole of Middle America," said Frederick H. Cohn, a lawyer who represented one of the defendants in the trial stemming from the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa.

If the square peg was in the round hole while she was trying to make it happen a different way, there must have been a reason for that because it really was meant to be that she would play Milly.

In other words, it was another attempt to get the square peg to fit into a non-square hole.

Our son was the proverbial square peg trying to fit into the round hole.

Governments can't own news operations: prime ministers and presidents are the squarest of pegs.