can't do anything with

1. Unable to cope with or manage someone or something. For example, I can't do anything with my hair, or My teenage daughter is very difficult—I can't do anything with her. This expression uses do in the sense of “deal with,” a usage dating from the early 1500s.

Example Sentences

“You can’t do anything with plastic but landfill it or burn it,” said Williams.

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You can’t do anything with the rest of your body because you have to involve your core to do that.

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“When you have somebody on stage that is going to say ‘I am just going to let Russia have this part of Ukraine and I am going to tell you can’t do anything with China going forward’ — that is just naive,” she said.

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"Bricked is the process of turning a computer into something that looks more like a brick - so you can't log in, you can't do anything with that computer."

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On Sunday, Washington had an eight-minute drive that didn’t cross midfield, prompting the question: What good is having the ball for all that time if the offense can’t do anything with it?

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