do the impossible
verb1
To accomplish something in spite of overwhelming odds against it.
- Reade's androgyne does the impossible by being not only the product of desire, but also the producer of desire.1998, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Impossible Purities, page 118:
- What I ask is, will you use your influence within your Party? I do not ask the impossible, though I might from you, for you have done the impossible.2022, Inez Haynes Gillmore, The Story of the Woman's Party:
- Related terms
- ask the impossible, move mountains, do one's utmost