There’s no getting blood out of a turnip.
Frederick Marryat
Orion's Cold Fire
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
There’s no getting blood out of a turnip.
Frederick Marryat
The Evaluation Branch of my SAC Missile Wing took issue with that statement. Their sigil showed a mailed fist holding a turnip from which flowed a river of blood. The legend below declared “The Hell We Can’t” (And they did!)
Maybe we can say that was the exception that proved the rule. Then again, I’ve never eaten a turnip. So for all I know they’re bursting with blood and Frederick Marryat was talking through his hat. Maybe he was making the point that a turnip is not a beet which does have a somewhat blood colored juice. But perhaps we’ll never know.