put a quart into a pint pot
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put a quart into a pint pot — idiom
1. To try to fit something into a space that is too small.
1.idiom
Definition
To try to fit something into a space that is too small.
Example
Fitting all the furniture into that tiny room is like putting a quart into a pint pot.
Trying to summarize the novel in one page is putting a quart into a pint pot.