you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube proverb: once something is said or done, it cannot be unsaid or undone.
Proverb
you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
- Once something is said or done, it cannot be unsaid or undone.
- But, as they say, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, so once it was out there for everybody to read there was no way of keeping it a secret and that inevitably led to me working it into continuity.2010, Erik Larsen, Savage Dragon #165
Synonyms of you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
Forms of you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
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Questions about you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
- What does you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube mean?
- You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube means once something is said or done, it cannot be unsaid or undone.
- What part of speech is you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube?
- You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube is a proverb.
Words near you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube in the dictionary
- you can't polish shit
- you can't pour from an empty cup
- you can't put a wise head on young shoulders
- you can't put an old head on young shoulders
- you can't put the shit back in the horse
- you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
- you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube
- you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
- you can't say fairer than that
- you can't step in the same river twice
- you can't take it with you
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