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.
can't do anything with
| Idioms: can't do anything with |
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 | Joyner, Florence Griffith (Quotes By) |
| anything (Idiom) |
| for crying out loud (Idiom) |
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- anything (Idiom)
- for crying out loud (Idiom)
- in one's cups (Idiom)
- Griffith-Joyner, Florence (Quotes By)
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- Piggy, Miss (Quotes By)
- nobody's fool (Idiom)
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- can't (Idiom)
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- Super Ten (Album by Judy Garland)
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