tirar leite de pedra
Portuguese, verb
tirar leite de pedra is spelled T-I-R-A-R-L-E-I-T-E-D-E-P-E-D-R-A (17 letters). Tirar leite de pedra is a Portuguese verb meaning “to get blood out of a stone, pull teeth (to do something very difficult or effortful)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does tirar leite de pedra mean in English?
verb
- 1
to get blood out of a stone, pull teeth (to do something very difficult or effortful)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. obter resultado positivo improvável acima do presumível de se conseguir obter em uma situação extremamente desfavorável
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tirar leite de pedra
- tiro leite de pedra first-person present singular
- tirei leite de pedra first-person preterite singular
- tirado leite de pedra participle past
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).