the toothpaste is out of the tube
the toothpaste is out of the tube
To rescind information that has been shared or reverse an action that has been taken, especially that which is damaging or undesirable. How confident are you in this information? Because once we announce it, the toothpaste is out of the tube. The company has sought to make reparations for the harms its former CEO caused, but the toothpaste is out of the tube, as it were.
See also: of, out, tube
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- unring
- unring a bell
- you can't unring a bell
- reconcile (oneself) to (something)
- reconcile oneself to
- get out of jail free card
- Let every man skin his own skunk.
- get (something) over with
- get it over with
- in the grip of something