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can't do anything with
Idioms and Phrases
Unable to cope with or manage someone or something. For example, I can't do anything with my hair , or My teenage daughter is very difficultâI can't do anything with her . This expression uses do in the sense of âdeal with,â a usage dating from the early 1500s.Example Sentences
âYou canât do anything with plastic but landfill it or burn it,â said Williams.
You canât do anything with the rest of your body because you have to involve your core to do that.
âWhen you have somebody on stage that is going to say âI am just going to let Russia have this part of Ukraine and I am going to tell you canât do anything with China going forwardâ â that is just naive,â she said.
"Bricked is the process of turning a computer into something that looks more like a brick - so you can't log in, you can't do anything with that computer."
On Sunday, Washington had an eight-minute drive that didnât cross midfield, prompting the question: What good is having the ball for all that time if the offense canât do anything with it?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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