you can't get a quart into a pint pot

English

Alternative forms

• you can't fit a quart into a pint pot
• you can't put a quart into a pint pot

Proverb

you can't get a quart into a pint pot

1. You cannot get too much of something to fit into something small.

   They've asked me to get to New York by five o'clock, but you can't get a quart into a pint pot!