can do with

Idioms  

1. Also, could do with. Might profit from, needs, as in This room can do with a good cleaning, or Harry could do with a new suit. [Colloquial; late 1700s] Also see do with.

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Example Sentences

She advises thinking about the small things such as eye contact or touch that you can do with the time you have in the day together to make you feel like a couple again.

From BBC

“I know, but those three things together aren’t worth one doll like Mrs. Pritchard’s. All you can do with a string of pearls is hang them around your neck. I think I need to go back to where I left off yesterday.”

From Literature

"We're just taking each day as it comes really, it's all we really can do with this diagnosis," she says.

From BBC

It’s a minor miracle, what Mrs. Tilbury can do with rationed ingredients.

From Literature

“To them, it’s like, ‘Now I have the keys to a brand-new car, let me see what I can do with it and how I can work it in with what I’ve been doing.’”

From Barron's