square peg in a round hole

Also, round peg in a square hole. A misfit, especially a person unsuited for a position or activity. For example, Ruth doesn't have the finesse for this job; she's a round peg in a square hole. This idiom, with its graphic image of something that cannot fit, dates from about 1800.

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The unwieldy best-of-three format, on the other hand, fits like a square peg in a round hole.

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By 2018, Bigham was on the Great Britain cycling team but found he was the square peg in a round hole.

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“He was such a square peg in a round hole,” Gluck said in an interview the day after Carr’s death.

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I don’t know exactly what that might look like, but it does feel like a little bit of a square peg in a round hole the way we’re trying to deal with it right now.

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“I’ve always been a square peg in a round hole, and I was well aware of that, but when I drove into town I realized I’d found where I’m going to stay until I die.”

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