do the impossible

do the impossible (third-person singular simple present does the impossible, present participle doing the impossible, simple past did the impossible, past participle done the impossible)

1. To accomplish something in spite of overwhelming odds against it.
   • 1998, Jennifer DeVere Brody, Impossible Purities, page 118:

     Reade's androgyne does the impossible by being not only the product of desire, but also the producer of desire.

   • 2022, Inez Haynes Gillmore, The Story of the Woman's Party:

     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.

• ask the impossible

• “the impossible”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “the impossible” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “the impossible” (US) / “the impossible” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.