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

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

Once something is said or done, it cannot be unsaid or undone.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

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 you can't teach an old dog new tricks you can't turn a hoe into a housewife