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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube en · X

Meanings

  1. Once something is said or done, it cannot be unsaid or undone.
    • But, as they say, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, so once it was out there for everybody to read there was no way of keeping it a secret and that inevitably led to me working it into continuity. 2010, Erik Larsen, Savage Dragon #165:

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Synonyms

you can't put the shit back in the horse · you can't unring a bell