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you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube

you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube is the alternative form of you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Meaning of you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube

Proverb

you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube

  1. 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

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You can't put the toothpaste back into the tube is the alternative form of you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Words near you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube in the dictionary

  1. you can't pour from an empty cup
  2. you can't put a wise head on young shoulders
  3. you can't put an old head on young shoulders
  4. you can't put the shit back in the horse
  5. you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
  6. you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube
  7. you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
  8. you can't say fairer than that
  9. you can't step in the same river twice
  10. you can't take it with you
  11. you can't talk

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