a person who doesn’t fit into societies norm
finding yourself in a situation that doesn’t suit you
trying to do something that you don’t know how to do
someone not capable of the job or task they are doing
being out of your depth or comfort zone in a situation
How he got the job I will never know. He’s like a square peg in a round hole.
You are trying to get a square peg into a round hole, let me do it instead.
That lifestyle really doesn’t suit Sally at all; she’s like a square peg in a round hole.
I went to the party for a little while, but I felt like a round peg in a square hole. There was nobody I knew there.
There is no origin for this idiom
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Common phrase that has a specific meaning.