"camel through the eye of a needle" meaning in English

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          "text": "Getting George to wake up before 7 o'clock is harder than getting a camel through the eye of a needle."
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          "text": "1795, John Swanwick (as \"Snub\"), \"To WILLIAM WILCOCKS, Esquire, L. L. D. and DUke of New-York, &c.\", in A Rub from Snub; or a cursory analytical epistle, page 57, quoting Wilcocks in the first footnote.\nAlluding to the exordium of his writings againſt the democrats, wherein he ſays “ It is a difficult for a party-man to be an honeſt man, as for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,” whereby he moſt emphatically declares his own diſhoneſty at the very firſt daſh of his pen."
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          "text": "1825, \"Sir H. L.\", in The Political Correspondence of the Leading Members of Parliament with the the Speaker of the House of Commons on Emancipation, James Bigg (publ.), page 83.\nYou are endeavouring to pass a bill that never can and that never will pass the House of Lords. Do you want to make a camel go through the eye of a needle?"
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        "(idiomatic) Hyperbole to illustrate something that is impossible to do or to make happen."
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          "word": "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"
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          "roman": "ḥattā yalija l-jamalu fī sammi l-ḵiyāṭi",
          "sense": "impossible",
          "word": "حَتَّى يَلِجَ الْجَمَلُ فِي سَمِّ الْخِيَاطِ"
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          "word": "kuin kamelin käydä neulansilmän lävitse"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "impossible",
          "word": "faire passer un chameau par le chas d’une aiguille"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "impossible",
          "word": "eher geht ein Kamel durch ein Nadelöhr"
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          "sense": "impossible",
          "word": "łatwiej jest wielbłądowi przejść przez ucho igielne"
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      "word": "kuin kamelin käydä neulansilmän lävitse"
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