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you can't handle that type of pressure

Not being able to handle a particular situation due to it being to much for the person.
Person 1: I'm trying to take you out on a romantic date.

Person 2: nah you can't handle that type of pressure.
by agdfgargaeg May 14, 2018
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I’m under a lot of pressure

I’m trying to take care of my mom. I’m hoping she has at least 20 or 30 years. I’m going to have to start taking care of her.

But I also don’t have a girlfriend or children or a job right now… so I’m pretty worried about my future. My friend said “you know the truth. They don’t.” And said they have more to lose. He says I’m overreacting.

The future is looking really rough for me soon. I’m just worried if I’m going to make it or not.
by Zatarain’s Root Beer Drinker January 19, 2023
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Materials that shouldn't exist under normal conditions but somehow do—room-temperature superconductors, stable metallic hydrogen, transparent aluminum, and other substances that would revolutionize everything if they could actually be made. The phrase is scientific shorthand for "things we've theoretically predicted but cannot practically produce," or more cynically, "grant proposals that will be funded for another decade." Exotic materials at ambient temperature and pressure would enable lossless power transmission, hovering vehicles, unbreakable everything, and a permanent place in the Nobel Prize committee's heart. Their absence from your daily life is a reminder that nature doesn't give up its secrets easily, and that "theoretically possible" is not the same as "actually feasible."
Example: "The researcher announced a breakthrough in room-temperature superconductors—exotic materials at ambient temperature and pressure that would transform the world. The stock of every energy company fluctuated wildly. Then the results couldn't be replicated. Then the researcher retired. Then someone else tried and failed. The exotic materials remained exotic—beautiful in theory, absent in practice."
by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026
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