亚洲网紅露点

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can't seem to



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Idioms and Phrases

Be apparently unable to, as in No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to concentrate on this book . This phrase gives added emphasis to a negative statement, as in the example. [Late 1800s]
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Quite inconsistent and that makes it very hard to understand what you need from the car when for whatever reason we can't seem to make the tyres work.

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As Rickey, a flighty self-starter who just can鈥檛 seem to get started, Angarano is wildly funny and also painfully familiar.

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But despite that, Wall Street can鈥檛 seem to quit him.

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Something that is so funny is how people can鈥檛 seem to remember the names of these women.

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Never mind the parking tickets I get each month, or the speeding tickets I can鈥檛 seem to escape as a driver raised on Houston鈥檚 infamous Interstate 45, or the fact that walks and subway rides leave me feeling far more connected to humanity than a trip in my cramped metal box.

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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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can't see beyond the end of one's nose.can't see the forest for the trees