Spanish: No Le Pidas Peras Al Olmo.

Type: Proverb

Literal Meaning: Don’t ask the elm tree to give you pears.

Meaning: You can’t get blood out of a turnip.

Juan: Patricio me debe mil pesos desde hace dos años. Siempre se lo pido y no me hace el menor caso. (Patricio has owed me a thousand pesos for two years now. I keep asking him for it but he totally ignores me.) Pablo: Olvídalo. Ese tipo nunca tiene dinero y nunca lo tendrá. No le pidas peras al olmo. (Forget it. That guy never has any money and he never will. You can’t get blood out of a turnip.)