you're trying to get a quart into a pint pot

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• quart into a pint pot — (UK)    If you try to put or get a quart into a pint pot, you try to put too much in a small space. (1 quart = 2 pints)   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    To say that you can t put a quart into a pint pot means that you cannot fit something… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions