- a beer glass, often with a handle, that holds one pint (= 0.568 of a litre in the UK and some other countries, and 0.473 of a litre in the US)
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put a quart into a pint pot
- (British English) to put something into a space that is too small for it
- Writing a history of the world in a single volume is like putting a quart into a pint pot.
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