A situation where streets have been subject to so much traffic calming modification (eg fences, traffic lights, one way streets) that it is impossible to get to the place you want, even though you can see it clearly.
Tourist: "I want to go to that shop but there's nowhere to cross the street."
Local: "You can't get there from here. You have to go back the way you came to the traffic lights, cross over to the other side of the street, walk back this way, go past here, then three blocks down there's a pedestrian crossing, cross back to this side, and head back down this way."
Tourist: "That's ridiculous!"
Local: "Yeah, but what can you do?"
Local: "You can't get there from here. You have to go back the way you came to the traffic lights, cross over to the other side of the street, walk back this way, go past here, then three blocks down there's a pedestrian crossing, cross back to this side, and head back down this way."
Tourist: "That's ridiculous!"
Local: "Yeah, but what can you do?"
by Matti! Matti! Matti! January 15, 2013
Get the you can't get there from heremug. It means that the situation that is being described is a binary. It is something that is either IS or ISN'T. Such as is the case when one is pregnant. One either "is" pregnant or "is not", there is no in between or partial pregnancy. It means it is a situation in which there is no ambiguity or no gray area. You can't be "just a little bit" of certain things.
You can't be just a little bit pregnant when you are talking bankruptcy. You can't be just a little bit bankrupt. You are either bankrupt or not bankrupt.
References:
Lou Mannheim (Hal Holbrook) in the movie "Wall Street" used this phrase while conversing with Bud Fox
References:
Lou Mannheim (Hal Holbrook) in the movie "Wall Street" used this phrase while conversing with Bud Fox
by idiomsfanatic April 13, 2007
Get the you can't be just a little bit pregnantmug. 1.make someone an offer and give them the choice of accepting and living, or refusing and dying. Taken from "The Godfather" trilogy.
2. Same as above, but instead of killing them, you take(kill) something or someone very dear to them.
2. Same as above, but instead of killing them, you take(kill) something or someone very dear to them.
The band-leader refused to let Johnny Fontane out of his contract, so Don Corleone made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
by Sarge February 13, 2005
Get the make you an offer you can't refusemug. If you are unable to outdo rivals in some endeavor, you might as well cooperate with them and thereby possibly gain an advantage. If your adversaries are stronger than you, it is better to join the adversaries. If you have to give up fighting some group because you can't win, band together with them.
by InYaDamnPanties November 29, 2016
Get the if you can't beat them, join themmug. Something that's impossible. It's like trying to run from a man that makes his living by running with a rickshaw all day long. He's going to catch you.
Guy - I didn't pay my taxes and now I have to pay even more.
Friend - You dumbass, you can't run from the rickshaw man!
Friend - You dumbass, you can't run from the rickshaw man!
by Kevin Beckwith January 9, 2009
Get the You can't run from the rickshaw manmug. The 7 words that will never be spoken on TV. Created by George Carlin. They are shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
by Pirra June 26, 2008
Get the 7 words you can't say on t.v.mug. A way of telling someone on a forum or other discussion that you disagree with them and their argument is so without merit you don't even need to put up a counter argument.
by bionixcommand June 28, 2010
Get the You can't shoot me, I'm AIDS!mug.