can't help

Idioms  

1. Also,. Be unable to do otherwise. For example, I can't help thinking that the keys will turn up eventually, or He couldn't help but believe he would pass the entrance exam, or I cannot but applaud his efforts. The first of these phrases, can't help, is always followed by a present participle whereas the others take an infinitive. [c. 1700]

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Example Sentences

After the family relocates to Connecticut from New York, Delia can’t help but turn their quaint, historical home into a gaudy spectacle full of terrible, modern-gothic artwork.

From Los Angeles Times

“In today’s post. I might not be able to serve on the front lines, but I figure in a year they might let me work on Spitfires. Can’t help but wonder how many are shot down and how many ditch because of mechanical failure.”

From Literature

"He can't help the team and perform at his top level. We decided it is better not to play him."

From BBC

“There’s so much happening to us at once, so much evil and ugliness around the country that we have to digest that it can’t help but infect our spirits,” philosopher Eddie Glaude Jr. said in a video he shared on social media following Good’s killing.

From Salon

So let me put your anxieties — I can’t help feeling that they’re more anxieties than real-world concerns — into perspective.

From MarketWatch