couldn

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  • (it) couldn't be helped
  • (one) can't be arsed
  • (one) can't do right for doing wrong
  • (one) can't win
  • (one) can't win for losing
  • (one) can't win for trying
  • a pile Jack Rice couldn't jump over
  • a roll Jack Rice couldn't jump over
  • can't be bothered
  • can't be helped. and couldn't be helped
  • can't call (one's) time (one's) own
  • can't get (something) for love or money
  • can't go on
  • can't help but (do something)
  • can't help but notice (that) (something)
  • can't help noticing (that) (something)
  • can't hit the (broad) side of a barn
  • can't hold it (in)
  • can't make anything out (of something)
  • can't punch (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • can't punch (one's) way out of a wet paper bag
  • can't stomach (someone)
  • can't stomach (something)
  • can't very well (do something)
  • can't/couldn't very well do something
  • couldn't (do something) to save (one's) life
  • couldn't act (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't act (one's) way out of a wet paper bag
  • couldn't agree more
  • couldn't ask for more
  • couldn't be better
  • couldn't be happier
  • couldn't believe (one's) eyes
  • couldn't care less
  • couldn't care less, he/I/she
  • couldn't carry a note in a bucket
  • couldn't carry a tune in a bucket
  • couldn't catch a cold
  • couldn't fight (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't fight (one's) way out of a wet paper bag
  • couldn't fight your way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't find (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't get elected dogcatcher
  • couldn't happen to a nicer (person)
  • couldn't have asked for more
  • couldn't help it
  • couldn't hit the side of a barn
  • couldn't lie straight in bed
  • couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
  • couldn't organise a chook raffle
  • couldn't organise a chook raffle at a poultry farm
  • couldn't organise a chook raffle in a (country) pub
  • couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery
  • couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel
  • couldn't pour water out of a boot
  • couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel
  • couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel
  • couldn't punch (one's) way out of a paper bag
  • couldn't raffle a chook in a pub
  • couldn't run a bath
  • he, she, etc. couldn't punch his, her, etc. way out of a paper bag
  • I couldn’t care less
  • I couldn't agree more
  • I couldn't ask you to do that
  • I couldn't have said it better myself
  • I couldn't hear you over the sound of (something)
  • I don't/couldn't give a monkey's
  • it can't be helped
  • land so poor you couldn't raise a fuss on it
  • not agree with (someone or something)
  • not care twopence
  • not get a word in edgeways
  • not give (a) tuppence
  • not give a monkey's
  • not give twopence
  • not hold a candle to (someone or something)
  • not hold a stick to (someone or something)
  • not hurt a flea
  • not hurt a fly
  • not matter tuppence
  • not matter twopence
  • not miss (something) for the world
  • not move a muscle
  • not say boo to a fly
  • out of a paper bag
  • wild horses couldn't drag (one) away (from something)
  • wild horses couldn't drag (one) to (something)
  • wild horses couldn't drag (something) from (one)
  • Wild horses couldn't drag away
  • wild horses couldn't drag me
  • You couldn't!
References in classic literature
Well, one night I creeps to de do' pooty late, en de do' warn't quite shet, en I hear old missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn' want to, but she could git eight hund'd dollars for me, en it 'uz sich a big stack o' money she couldn' resis'.
Well, I had a notion I could lan' mos' anywhers, but I couldn't -- bank too bluff.
I couldn' manage to k'leck dat money no way; en Balum he couldn'.
I could see them first-rate, but they couldn't see me.
I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.
Every now and then I stopped a second amongst the thick leaves and listened, but my breath come so hard I couldn't hear nothing else.
Well, I couldn't stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time.
But I hadn't no luck somehow; I couldn't seem to find the place.
He said Tom Sawyer couldn't get up no better plan than what I had.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"I couldn' make nobody hear at all by knocking," apologized Jonathan Kail, for it was he at last; "and as't was raining out I opened the door.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
He said the ten volumes of joint investigation team (JIT) was just an investigation report and it couldn''t be presented as evidence in trial court.
Nawaz separates himself from Qatari letters
"These children here, who are homeless, orphaned; mothers and sisters have been raped and sold, fathers who have been killed, they are suffering, and I knew that I couldn?t just sit and do nothing." "I couldn?t look my children in the eyes and say, 'I didn?t do anything to help.'" Ms Johnston told the site her children are in ?a safe place?.
Former U.S female soldier to join Peshmerga troops in Kurdistan
Sorry - I'- I'm going to be doing what?The concept was something I couldn''t have imagined beforehand.
Let loose on super-sized playground
And just when he thought his special day couldn''t get any better, they'll send him off with a complimentary limited edition Vedett bottle and glass set.
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