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• (one) can't win for losing
• (someone) could sell an icebox to an Eskimo
• (someone) could sell ice to Eskimos
• (someone) could sell sawdust to a lumber mill
• as best one can
• as far as the eye can see
• before could blink
• can do with
• Can I speak to ? Go to Could I speak to
• can't be bothered
• Check, please
• could be better
• could be worse
• could care less
• could do with
• could do with one arm tied behind back
• could fight a circle-saw
• could have fooled me
• could hear a pin drop
• Could I be excused?
• Could I call you?
• Could I come in?
• Could I get by, please?
• Could I have a lift?
• Could I have call you?
• Could I help you?
• Could I join you?
• Could I leave a message?
• Could I see you again?
• Could I see you in my office?
• Could I speak to?
• Could I take a message?
• Could I take your order?
• Could I tell him who's calling?
• Could I use your powder room?
• could in sleep
• could standing on head
• could talk under water
• Could we continue this later?
• could with eyes closed
• Could you excuse us, please?
• Could you hold?
• Could you keep a secret?
• couldn't care less
• couldn't carry a note in a bucket
• couldn't carry a tune in a bucket
• couldn't get elected dogcatcher
• couldn't happen to a nicer (person)
• did everything he could 'cept eat us
• face (that) would stop a clock
• face only a mother could love
• faster than you can say Jack Robinson
• glad you could come
• glad you could drop by
• How could you?
• I could care less
• I could eat a horse
• I could eat a horse!
• I could murder
• I could spit!
• I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you
• I couldn’t care less
• I should cocoa!
• I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw
• I'd like a word with you. and Could I have a word with you?
• if looks could kill
• if pigs had wings, they would/could fly
• knock (someone) down with a feather
• knock (someone) over with a feather
• May I speak to ? Go to Could I speak to
• might could
• only Nixon could go to China
• quicker than you can say Jack Robinson
• so clean you could eat off the floor
• so cold you could hang meat
• so mad I could scream
• so quiet you could hear a pin drop
• so still you could hear a pin drop
• spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, the
• the least (someone) could do
• Who would have thought?
• would if I could
• you could cut it with a knife
• you could cut the atmosphere with a knife
• You could have heard a pin drop
• You could have knocked me down with a feather!
• you could have knocked me over with a feather
• you could hear the grass grow(ing)
• You could've fooled me