square peg in a round hole , auch: round peg in a square hole

That sounds as though we want to put a square peg in a round hole.

"It was like putting a square peg in a round hole."

"I'm a bit of a square peg in a round hole.

He also said, "the prosecutors are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole."

"What became clear to all of us was that we were trying to put a square peg in a round hole," Walton told me.

You're trying to put square pegs in a round hole."

Low self-esteem can be exacerbated by a sense of being a square peg in a round hole.

"A square peg in a round hole," she suggested tonelessly.

However there is no doubt one that is not a square peg in a round hole.

They're a pop label, so they were always trying to fit a square peg in a round hole."

"As they say, you can't fit a square peg in a round hole.

A creative and improvisational attacker, Thomas was a square peg in a round hole.

The problem is akin to putting a square peg in a round hole; it too is a lesson.

Kupka comes across as the archetypal square peg in a round hole.

But now it serviced the sub's tower, the proverbial square peg in a round hole.

But, the so called civilized west, particularly the anglophone keep trying to prove that, they can fit a square peg in a round hole.

The major problem is that Katzenmoyer is an academic square peg in a round hole.

For others, the discovery process occurs only after trying to fit into the expected "straight" mold, and feeling like a square peg in a round hole.

The episode's title is an abbreviated reference to the idiomatic phrase "square peg in a round hole."

These high points aside, Couric failed to overcome the feeling that she was a square peg in a round hole.

'You might say that I was trained to be a professional square peg in a round hole.'

India Today tersely labeled him as "a square peg in a round hole," who was "ineffective and inarticulate."

Pietersen opening is a square peg in a round hole, he's better suited at No4.

Like I'd finally stopped being a square peg in a round hole and I'd found the place I belonged all along.

In the conservative and predictable world of football Armstead is a square peg in a round hole.