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Examples:You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up.—you can run this time, but you'll have come back—lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other—If you can't do anything prevent it, you might as well sit back and enjoy it.—lit. you can sing or you can cry (idiom); fig. deeply moving—If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar ina needle.—You can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot. [idiom.]—lit. say grapes are sour when you can't eat them—You can't gain knowledge without practical experience (common saying); wisdom only comes with experience—definitive conclusion on the coffin lid (idiom); You can only judge a person's merits or demerits after death.—An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (common saying); Money can't buy you time.—lit. like tofu strung on horsetail, you can't lift it—lit. speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y)— |