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can't do anything with



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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—I can't do anything with her . This expression uses do in the sense of “deal with,” a usage dating from the early 1500s.

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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 Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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