square peg in a round hole
English
Noun
square peg in a round hole (plural square pegs in round holes)
- (idiomatic) Something or someone that does not fit well or at all; something that will not succeed as attempted, except possibly with much force and effort, or alteration of either the peg or the hole or both beyond recognition.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 54
- In England and France he was the square peg in the round hole, but here the holes were any sort of shape, and no sort of peg was quite amiss.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 54
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