can't complain

1. Used as a response meaning fairly good or well, to questions such as “How are you?” or “How is business?” For example, How've you been?—Can't complain. This term means that nothing serious is wrong. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

Among his best-known tunes were the rollicking “Beer Run”; “Can’t Complain,” about a guy with “nothing to lose ’cause there is nothing to gain”; and “Alright Guy,” which opens with a scene in which a friend catches him leafing through “that new book with pictures of Madonna naked.”

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“Every day I discover more. I need to go back to fiction for a while — documentaries are exhausting. But I can’t complain. I wish everyone could be as passionate about their work as I am.”

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"I make sure I cook, clean and everything is done in the house before I leave, so he can't complain when I'm not there."

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"Maybe a holiday with my friends would've been nice but I can't complain about a sunny month in London," Chathli tells BBC Sport.

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If these clearly disabled people can make the most of things, then you certainly can’t complain.

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