put a quart into a pint pot

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put a quart into a pint pot — 慣用語

1. To try to fit something into a space that is too small.

1.慣用語
釋義

小容器裝大東西

To try to fit something into a space that is too small.

例句

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.