Sentence examples for squeeze blood from from inspiring English sources

"You can't squeeze blood from a turnip," she told me.

If they can squeeze blood from a rock, they will".

"You can't squeeze blood from a turnip or water from a stone," Mr. Kelso said on Friday.

"We're not trying to squeeze blood from a turnip," Father Hanchon said, "but we do have fixed costs".

A pair of "magic trousers" designed to squeeze blood from the legs to congested chest veins is being clinically tested by 300 patients at an NHS heart centre.

Just as you cannot squeeze blood from a stone you cannot get much revenue from someone who does not have it.

Immersing the body in water squeezes blood from the extremities into the chest.

This has become government's version of squeezing blood from a turnip, and it is a fight in which conservatives in Virginia can work to limit government abuse.

But like squeezing blood from a stone, this has reached its limit: not for those who, like the prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, urged parents to help their children get established – as most of those of us who can, do – but collectively.

The bundles of striated muscle fibres present in the myocardium are arranged in a branching pattern and produce a wringing type of movement that efficiently squeezes blood from the heart with each beat.

Although they are happy to let me see and film the room, getting information out of the team about what is actually going on is like squeezing blood from a peculiarly nervous stone.