can't do anything with

Idioms  

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.

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can't do anything with

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

"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."

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2023

“Life is so unpredictable and uncertain. We can’t do anything with this uncertainty.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2022

“I mean, if you cannot do anything with your economy, and you can’t do anything with your society, the only thing you can do is to be quite dangerous,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022

What’s the point of getting somebody you care for something they can’t do anything with but look at for a few days until it dies.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds