that+cannot+be

  • 61Space They Cannot Touch — is a love song that is popular in the repertoire of Brisbane singer and Sony BMG artist Kate Miller Heidke. Released independently on her EP Telegram in 2004, it received considerable airplay on the Australian youth radio network Triple J and has …

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  • 62you cannot have your cake and eat it — You cannot consume or spend something and still keep possession of it: once the cake is eaten, it is gone. The positions of have and eat are often reversed. 1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs II. ix. L2 I trowe ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your …

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  • 63fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer — 1666 G. TORRIANO Italian Proverbs 249 One fool may ask more than seven wise men can answer. 1738 SWIFT Polite Conversation ii. 156 ‘Miss, can you tell which is the white Goose?’.. ‘They say, a Fool will ask more Questions than the wisest body can …

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  • 64one cannot love and be wise — Cf. PUBLILIUS SYRUS Sententiae xxii. amare et sapere vix deo conceditur, to love and to be wise is scarcely allowed to God. c 1527 T. BERTHELET tr. Erasmus’ Sayings of Wise Men B1v To have a sadde [serious] mynde and loue is nat in one person.… …

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  • 65The Killer That Stalked New York — Infobox Film | name = The Killer That Stalked New York caption = The Killer That Stalked New York one sheet movie poster director = Earl McEvoy producer = Robert Cohn writer = Milton Lehman (article) Harry Essex starring =Evelyn Keyes Charles… …

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  • 66what’s done cannot be undone — Also found in the terser, more casual form what’s done is done. Cf. SOPHOCLES Ajax 1. 378 οὐ γὰρ γένοιτ᾽ ἄν ταῦθ᾽ ὅπως οὐχ ὧδ᾽ ἔχειν, things could not now be otherwise; early 14th cent. Fr. mez quant ja est la chose fecte, ne puet pas bien estre… …

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  • 67love and a cough cannot be hid — Cf. L. amor tussisque non celantur, love and a cough cannot be concealed. a 1325 Cursor Mundi (EETS) 1. 4276 Luken luue at the end wil kith [concealed love will show itself in the end]. 1573 J. SANFORDE Garden of Pleasure 98v Foure things cannot… …

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  • 68he who can, does; he who cannot, teaches — There are many (frequently humorous) variations on this proverb. 1903 G. B. SHAW Maxims for Revolutionists in Man & Superman 230 He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. 1979 Daily Telegraph 6 Aug. 8 A version of an old adage came to me those… …

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  • 69something cannot be overstated — phrase used for saying that something is extremely important or serious The negative consequences of this proposal cannot be overstated. Thesaurus: importantsynonym words used for saying that something is importantsynonym Main entry …

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  • 70you cannot lose what you never had — The sentiment is expressed in a number of ways: quot. 1974 represents a local equivalent. Similar to what you’ve never had you never miss. a 1593 MARLOWE Hero & Leander I. 276 Of that which hath no being do not boast, Things that are not at all… …

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