You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip

You can't get blood out of a turnip

Our first intent was to squeeze the blood out of our local turnip. That was the general game plan for everybody. But it's come to the point where we've squeezed that turnip as much as we can.

Do I look like a turnip that just fell off the turnip truck

Squeezing our money out of politicians is more difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein love song, they never let it go.

You can't get blood out of a stone