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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army" class="extiw" title="w:British Army">Army</a>: “IF YOUR technical qualifications and experience are needed in the Army, and you are not yet a soldier-tradesman, then you MAY BE a square peg in a round hole.”</figcaption></figure> <p>From the fact that a square peg fits poorly in a round hole. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=square_peg_in_a_round_hole&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation" class="extiw" title="w:Received Pronunciation">Received Pronunciation</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/skwɛə ˌpɛɡ ɪn‿ə ɹaʊnd ˈhəʊl/</span>, <span class="IPA">/skwɛː-/</span></li> <li><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><span class="usage-label-accent"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English" class="extiw" title="w:General American English">General American</a></span></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span> <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a><sup>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>)</sup>: <span class="IPA">/skwɛəɹ ˌpɛɡ ɪn‿ə ɹaʊnd ˈhoʊl/</span></li> <li><style 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class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/square#English" title="square">square</a> <a href="/wiki/peg#English" title="peg">peg</a> <a href="/wiki/in#English" title="in">in</a> <a href="/wiki/a#English" title="a">a</a> <a href="/wiki/round#English" title="round">round</a> <a href="/wiki/hole#English" title="hole">hole</a></strong> (<i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/square_pegs_in_round_holes#English" title="square pegs in round holes">square pegs in round holes</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac label-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content label-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic" title="Appendix:Glossary">idiomatic</a></span><span class="ib-brac label-brac">)</span></span> Someone or something that does not <a href="/wiki/fit#Verb" title="fit">fit</a> well or at all in a certain <a href="/wiki/setting#Noun" title="setting">setting</a>; a <a href="/wiki/misfit#Noun" title="misfit">misfit</a>; hence, someone or something that will not <a href="/wiki/succeed" title="succeed">succeed</a> in an <a href="/wiki/endeavor#Noun" title="endeavor">endeavour</a>, except <a href="/wiki/possibly" title="possibly">possibly</a> with much <a href="/wiki/effort#Noun" title="effort">effort</a> and <a href="/wiki/force#Noun" title="force">force</a>. <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonym:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/like_a_fish_out_of_water#English" class="mw-redirect" title="like a fish out of water">like a fish out of water</a></span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">[<span class="None" lang="und"><b>1873</b></span>, [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton" class="extiw" title="w:Edward Bulwer-Lytton">Edward Bulwer-Lytton</a>], chapter XXI, in <cite>Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="By the Author of ‘The Caxtons,’ &c. In Three Volumes.">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite>, 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh; London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwood_(publishing_house)" class="extiw" title="w:Blackwood (publishing house)">William Blackwood and Sons</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/1230561269">→OCLC</a></small>, book II, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bulwerlyttonkenelmchillingly2ed01/page/352/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">352</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">["]Now, your son's case is really your case—you see it through the medium of your likings and dislikings—and insist upon forcing a <b>square peg into a round hole</b>, because in a round hole you, being a round peg, feel tight and comfortable. Now I call that irrational." / "I don't see why my son has any right to fancy himself a square peg," said the farmer, doggedly, "when his father, and his grandfather, and his great-grandfather, have been round pegs; and it is agin' nature for any creature not to take after its own kind.["]</span>]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>1919</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham" class="extiw" title="w:W. Somerset Maugham">W[illiam] Somerset Maugham</a>, chapter LIV, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_and_Sixpence" class="extiw" title="w:The Moon and Sixpence">The Moon and Sixpence</a></cite>, <span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>New York, N.Y.<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosset_%26_Dunlap" class="extiw" title="w:Grosset & Dunlap">Grosset & Dunlap Publishers<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="by arrangement with George H. Doran Company">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/365836">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/moonsixpence00maugrich/page/282/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">282</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish, but they were used to queer fish, and they took him for granted; <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> In England and France he was the <b>square peg in the round hole</b>, but here the holes were any sort of shape, and no sort of peg was quite amiss.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">[<b>1985</b> July 9, Eugene Gressman, witness, “Statement of a Panel, including: Elliot H. Levitas, Esq., Kilpatrick & Cody, Washington, DC; Stuart E. Eizenstat, Esq., Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Washington, DC; Stan M. Brand, Esq., Brand & Lowell, Washington, DC; and Eugene Gressman, Professor of Constitutional Law, School of Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill”, in <cite>Rulemaking Procedures Reform Act of 1985: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" class="extiw" title="w:United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Committee on the Judiciary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" class="extiw" title="w:United States Senate">United States Senate</a>, Ninety-ninth <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" class="extiw" title="w:United States Congress">Congress</a>, First Session on S. 1145: A Bill to Increase the Accountability of, Policy Coordination by, and Management of Priorities by Agencies through an Improved Mechanism for Congressional Oversight of the Rules of Agencies<span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">[</span></span><span title="[...] Printed for the Use of the Committee on the Judiciary">…</span><span class="q-hellip-b"><span style="font-style: normal;">]</span></span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></cite> (Serial J-99-38), Washington, D.C.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Government_Publishing_Office" class="extiw" title="w:United States Government Publishing Office">U.S. Government Printing Office</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/12954332">→OCLC</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=onI8dDRq4AkC&pg=PA77">page <span class="None" lang="und">77</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">It is almost as if you have guidelines for putting a square peg into a square hole, but we are trying to apply those same guidelines to put a <b>square peg into a round hole</b>.</span>]</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source">[<span class="None" lang="und"><b>2005</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_Graham_Scott" class="extiw" title="w:Gini Graham Scott">Gini Graham Scott</a>, “Dealing with Danger”, in <cite>A Survival Guide for Working with Bad Bosses: Dealing with Bullies, Idiots, Back-stabbers, and Other Managers from Hell</cite>, New York, N.Y.: AMACOM, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Management_Association" class="extiw" title="w:American Management Association">American Management Association</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8144-7298-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8144-7298-9">→ISBN</a></small>, part V (Ethical Challenges), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/survivalguidefor00gini/page/153/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">153</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">As they say, you can't fit a <b>square peg in a round hole</b>. If your boss is like that round hole and you are that square peg, you aren't going to fit in unless you re-shape your edges. If you can't do that, then look for that square hole where you will fit.</span>]</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=square_peg_in_a_round_hole&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-someone_or_something_that_does_not_fit_well_or_at_all_in_a_certain_setting"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">someone or something that does not fit well or at all in a certain setting</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="someone or something that does not fit well or at all in a certain setting"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Cantonese: <span class="Hant" lang="yue"><a href="/wiki/%E7%89%9B%E9%A0%AD%E5%94%94%E6%90%AD%E9%A6%AC%E5%98%B4#Cantonese" title="牛頭唔搭馬嘴">牛頭唔搭馬嘴</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;"> / </span><span class="Hans" lang="yue"><a href="/wiki/%E7%89%9B%E5%A4%B4%E5%94%94%E6%90%AD%E9%A9%AC%E5%98%B4#Cantonese" title="牛头唔搭马嘴">牛头唔搭马嘴</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="yue-Latn" class="tr Latn">ngau<sup>4</sup> tau<sup>4</sup> m<sup>4</sup> daap<sup>3</sup> maa<sup>5</sup> zeoi<sup>2</sup></span>, literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">a cow’s head doesn’t fit with a horse’s mouth</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">idiom</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></dd> <dd>Mandarin: <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%9E%98%E5%9C%93%E9%91%BF#Mandarin" title="方枘圓鑿">方枘圓鑿</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;"> / </span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%9E%98%E5%9C%86%E5%87%BF#Mandarin" title="方枘圆凿">方枘圆凿</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%96%B9%E6%9E%98%E5%9C%93%E9%91%BF" class="extiw" title="zh:方枘圓鑿">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">fāngruìyuánzuò</span>, literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">a square handle on a round chisel</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>; <span class="Hani" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E6%A0%BC%E6%A0%BC%E4%B8%8D%E5%85%A5#Mandarin" title="格格不入">格格不入</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%A0%BC%E6%A0%BC%E4%B8%8D%E5%85%A5" class="extiw" title="zh:格格不入">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">gégébùrù</span>, literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">unable to enter the squares</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>; <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E5%85%AD%E4%B8%8D%E7%AD%94%E5%B0%8D#Mandarin" title="六不答對">六不答對</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;"> / </span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E5%85%AD%E4%B8%8D%E7%AD%94%E5%AF%B9#Mandarin" title="六不答对">六不答对</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%85%AD%E4%B8%8D%E7%AD%94%E5%B0%8D" class="extiw" title="zh:六不答對">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span>literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">six not answering correctly</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">Yangzhou</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span>, <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E9%A9%A2%E8%84%A3%E4%B8%8D%E5%B0%8D%E9%A6%AC%E5%98%B4#Mandarin" title="驢脣不對馬嘴">驢脣不對馬嘴</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;"> / </span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E9%A9%B4%E5%94%87%E4%B8%8D%E5%AF%B9%E9%A9%AC%E5%98%B4#Mandarin" title="驴唇不对马嘴">驴唇不对马嘴</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">lǘchún bù duì mǎzuǐ</span>, literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">a donkey’s lips don’t fit with a horse’s mouth</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">idiom</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></dd></dl></li> <li>Japanese: <span class="ttbc"><sup class="ttbc">(please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>)</sup> <span class="Jpan" lang="ja"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E9%87%8D%E7%AE%B1%E3%81%AB%E9%8D%8B%E8%93%8B&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="重箱に鍋蓋 (page does not exist)">重箱に鍋蓋</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span class="tr">じゅうばこになべぶた, jūbako ni nabebuta</span>, literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">a (round) pot-lid on a <i>jūbako</i> [set of usually square tiered boxes]</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></span></li> <li>Macedonian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="mk"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%BE&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="риба на суво (page does not exist)">ри́ба на́ суво</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="mk-Latn" class="tr Latn">ríba ná suvo</span>, literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">fish on land</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li> <li>Russian: <span class="Cyrl" lang="ru"><a href="/w/index.php?title=%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%BE&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="как корове седло (page does not exist)">как коро́ве седло́</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%BE" class="extiw" title="ru:как корове седло">(ru)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="ru-Latn" class="tr Latn">kak koróve sedló</span>, literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">like a saddle [would fit/for] a cow</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">idiom</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></li> <li>Turkish: <span class="Latn" lang="tr"><a href="/w/index.php?title=dam_ba%C5%9F%C4%B1nda_saksa%C4%9Fan_vur_beline_kazmay%C4%B1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="dam başında saksağan vur beline kazmayı (page does not exist)">dam başında saksağan vur beline kazmayı</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">idiom</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span>, <span class="Latn" lang="tr"><a href="/w/index.php?title=bizim_k%C3%B6pek_sizin_eve_baltay%C4%B1_getirdimi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="bizim köpek sizin eve baltayı getirdimi (page does not exist)">bizim köpek sizin eve baltayı getirdimi</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">idiom</span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></li> <li>Vietnamese: <span class="Latn" lang="vi"><a href="/wiki/r%C3%A2u_%C3%B4ng_n%E1%BB%8D_c%E1%BA%AFm_c%E1%BA%B1m_b%C3%A0_kia#Vietnamese" title="râu ông nọ cắm cằm bà kia">râu ông nọ cắm cằm bà kia</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span>literally <span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span class="mention-gloss">this gentleman’s beard transplanted onto that lady’s chin</span><span class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="See_also">See also</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=square_peg_in_a_round_hole&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/square_the_circle#English" title="square the circle">square the circle</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content">semantic overlap regarding a difficult problem</span><span 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