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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 difficult鈥擨 can't do anything with her . This expression uses do in the sense of 鈥渄eal with,鈥 a usage dating from the early 1500s.Example Sentences
鈥淵ou can鈥檛 do anything with plastic but landfill it or burn it,鈥 said Williams.
You can鈥檛 do anything with the rest of your body because you have to involve your core to do that.
鈥淲hen you have somebody on stage that is going to say 鈥業 am just going to let Russia have this part of Ukraine and I am going to tell you can鈥檛 do anything with China going forward鈥 鈥 that is just naive,鈥 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 didn鈥檛 cross midfield, prompting the question: What good is having the ball for all that time if the offense can鈥檛 do anything with it?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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