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Square peg in a round hole : ウィキペディア英語版
Square peg in a round hole

"Square peg in a round hole" is an idiomatic expression which describes the unusual
individualist who could not fit into a niche of his or her society.〔Wallace, Irving. (1957) ''The Square Pegs: Some Americans Who Dared to be Different,'' p. 10.〕
The metaphor was originated by Sydney Smith in "On the Conduct of the Understanding", one of a series of lectures on moral philosophy that he delivered at the Royal Institution in 1804–06:
The Oxford English Dictionary has as its earliest citation Albany Fonblanque, ''England under Seven Administrations'', 1837, "Sir Robert Peel was a smooth round peg, in a sharp-cornered square hole, and Lord Lyndenurst is a rectangular square-cut peg, in a smooth round hole."
NOTE: Settlers actually pounded square-cut pegs into round holes when building in the 1800s. http://www.dutchbarns.org/dbpsnewssp90.htm
==English literature==
The British novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton published the metaphor in a late 19th-century book:

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