sow's
Mother pig's possessive
Sow's is the possessive form of sow, a mature female pig.
It appears in phrases like sow's ear, most commonly in the expression You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear—meaning you can't create something refined from inferior materials.
idiom
Bag for personal items
- earAuditory organ
- silkFine woven insect fiber
- foolishnessUnwise conduct
- futilityLack of purpose
impossibility · transformation · refinement · crudeness · proverb · saying · wisdom · folly
ear
Auditory organ
belly · milk · farrowing · snout · teat · nursing · weaning · gilt · boar · hog
purse
Bag for personal items
- earAuditory organ
- silkFine woven insect fiber
- foolishnessUnwise conduct
futility · impossibility · transformation · refinement · crudeness · proverb · saying · wisdom · folly · vain
- reap what one sowsFace consequences of actions
- sow discord
- sow wild oatsYouthful indulgence before maturity
- sow one's wild oatsYouthful indulgence before maturity
- sow the seeds ofBegin a gradual process
- reaping what one sowsReceiving earned consequences