able to do

able to do it

Capable of completing a particular task or doing something. I offered to help her change her flat tire, but she said she was able to do it herself.
See also: able
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

able to do something

to have the strength or skill to do something. (Able to can be replaced with can.) Are you able to carry those bags by yourself?
See also: able
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • able to do it
  • able to cut
  • able to cut it
  • able to cut something
  • a change of heart
  • a mystery to (one)
  • appear to
  • (one) can whistle for it
  • a turn of phrase
  • a shoulder to cry on
References in classic literature
But in maintaining armed men there in place of colonies one spends much more, having to consume on the garrison all the income from the state, so that the acquisition turns into a loss, and many more are exasperated, because the whole state is injured; through the shifting of the garrison up and down all become acquainted with hardship, and all become hostile, and they are enemies who, whilst beaten on their own ground, are yet able to do hurt.
It is hard to make out what I mean, but this is a try at it, and I do not know that I shall be able to do better unless I add that Thackeray, of all the writers that I have known, is the most thoroughly and profoundly imbued with literature, so that when he speaks it is not with words and blood, but with words and ink.
And who is best able to do good to his friends and evil to his enemies in time of sickness?
And in what sort of actions or with a view to what result is the just man most able to do harm to his enemy and good to his friends?
I think too many people ask the quarterback to do things that they're not able to do, whether physically or mentally.
"I can't believe they were able to do this back then," said John Humont, Foundry Consultants Inc., Toledo, Ohio, who would work on recasting the head 77 years later.
Last September, we celebrated our 40th anniversary as a publishing company; and we have done something not many black institutions have been able to do, as we are into our third ownership change.
* Expect the children to move around as soon as they are developmentally able to do so and develop strategies for tracking movements in your field notes
Attendant with that also in a joint setting is to be able to pick our people up with combat search and rescue assets, regardless of who those folks are, whether it's a Navy crew, an Army crew or a Marine crew, to be able to do this at range relative to the operations that we've got in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What do you guys try to accomplish in the community?" Those things are very important to me, to be able to do different things and be comfortable.
The only reason that TAPPI is able to do what it does today is because of past good stewardship that lets us live off the nuts that have been stored up for winter.
And now we are, once again, seized with a problem of a conflict in Western Sudan that threatens the country and threatens to undermine what we have been able to do in recent months with respect to the North-South conflict resolution process in the Sudan.
"We really believe in the youth of rural America and are proud to be able to do this," Gottsch explains.
The reason they've been able to do this is simple: each consultant is a specialist and knows their customer's industry intimately, so they know the points of leverage and the players.
"Our understanding of fluid mechanics and the natural environment is poor compared to what the lobster is able to do with the kind of information that is out there," Grasso says.