Origin: This expression dates from the 1800s, to describe people who just did not fit into situations they were in. They essentially did not have the temperment, skills, or knowledge. Sometimes the words in this expression are switched to 'square peg in a round hole.'
Possibly this predates the 1800s as the expression is used by Zen Master Dogen in "Shobogenzo", his Zen Buddhist Masterpiece entitled "The Treasure House of the Eye of the True Teaching".The phrase "Square peg in a round hole" is often misquoted as "a round peg in a square hole". This phrase means that a person feels out of place with their surroundings or those within it. The origin of "a square peg in a round hole" is a proverb that dates back to the 1600s' in England.
It means that something doesn't fit. You can't fit a square peg into a round hole, and this expression means anything else that does not fit together, like one person who is different or does not fit in.
It is usually "square peg in a round hole".
If you mean what does the slang mean, it means it does not fit. If you mean it literally, I don't think it's possible.
Use a hole that is larger than the peg.
It is not an idiom, it means your nose is itching.
It means that that you have to start all over again. Imagain a game of snakes and ladders, you fail, so you go down a snake to square. You have to do it all again. back to square 1
idiom means expression like a page in a book
Simply its mean a bully.
I think it means that that person agrees with that others persons idiom and that it fit that question that the teacher or whoever asked that question.
to be in dept , to owe money or to lose money
don't be a square u know be there It is the 50;s and 60;s version of Nerd. Square coming from square peg in a round hole, in other words it does not fit in.
This isn't an idiom because you can figure out what it means pretty easily. It's an exaggeration - pretending that your money is so eager to leave your pocket that it can burn a hole to get out.
This means that she can't wait to spend the money she has.
Square top vs round
If by "bottom hole" you mean the round hole at the end, then no. Most of the sound of a flute comes out near where the mouthpiece is
What do you mean with "another end"? A round object has no ends.
This is, by now, a somewhat old fashioned idiom, but in the 1950's conformists were described as square. A person who always does what society expects him or her to do, could be described as square.
"Round feet" is not a common unit of measurement; please explain what you mean by "round feet".
If you mean a circle then its square footage formula is: pi*radius2
if you mean locking,as in the fitting of timing belt,it is a round hole,inside elongated hole,nearest the bulkhead
Nothing. The correct idiom is "ace in the hole," which literally means that you have an ace card (the highest value in the deck) hidden away somewhere so you can win the card game. It's come to mean any situation where you have a hidden advantage or something you can "pull out" to win the situation.