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cannot

See the expressions listed at can't and also those at not able.

cannot

see under can't.

See:

• (one) can't win for losing
• a house divided against itself cannot stand
• An empty sack cannot stand upright
• cannot
• cannot but
• cannot choose but
• cannot help but
• cannot help doing
• cannot see any further than the end of one’s nose
• cannot see further than the end of one’s nose
• cannot see the wood for the trees
• can't be bothered
• can't but
• can't carry a tune
• can't help
• can't live with them, can't live without them
• can't see farther than the end of (one's) nose
• couldn't carry a note in a bucket
• couldn't carry a tune in a bucket
• from can see to can't see
• He that cannot obey cannot command
• hold a candle to, not
• leopard cannot change his spots
• leopard cannot change its spots, a
• Man cannot live by bread alone
• mill cannot grind with water that is past
• Never make a threat you cannot carry out
• not able to stomach
• not bear the sight of (someone or something)
• offer one cannot refuse
• One cannot be in two places at once
• One cannot love and be wise
• see no further than the end of nose
• see no further than the end of one’s nose
• what has been seen cannot be unseen
• What's done cannot be undone
• you can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink
• You cannot get a quart into a pint pot
• You cannot get blood from a stone
• You cannot have your cake and eat it
• You cannot lose what you never had
• You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
• You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs
• You cannot make bricks without straw
• You cannot please everyone
• You cannot put new wine in old bottles
• You cannot serve God and mammon
• You cannot teach an old dog new tricks
• you can't live with them, you can't live without them
• you can't polish a turd
• you can't put a wise head on young shoulders
• you can't put an old head on young shoulders
• you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
• you can't tell a book by its cover
• you can't unring a bell