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It is impossible for a person to create something good out of something that is, by its very nature, bad.
(coming out of a movie theater)
Guy 1: That was the worst movie ever, man.
Guy 2: I know! But! Leonardo DiCaprio was the best out of them, though. His acting blew everyone else's right out of the water! Too bad everything else sucked.
Guy 1: Oh, well. You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.
by starofdestiny October 14, 2009
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The full title of one of the most annoying Chips Challenge levels ever, featured in CCLP3.
Crap, You Can't Teach An Old Frog New Tricks is so damn hard!
by mypseudoonym... February 6, 2012
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"Your mouth is writing checks your ass can't cash," is something TV Dr. Phil McGraw's father said to him as a boy when he would voice wild plans or notions. It means that talk is cheap relative to performance, or that promising something and delivering on it are two different things. A phrase similar in meaning is "Money talks, bullshit walks."

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"I'm going to get a job selling fuzzy dice door-to-door. I'll be rich!"

"Boy, your mouth is writing checks your ass can't cash."

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by al-in-chgo March 13, 2010
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An expression basically meaning that you can only have it so good, and you can't have it all.

An good example is if a situation is bittersweet.
Sara was sad that the guy whom had gotten very close to her in the past 3 years which she held a secret fondness for developed an interest in her best friend, Clare. In conversation with Clare, Sara explained the situation, to which Clare responded.

"You can't have your cake and eat it too."
by ThatOneHuman December 28, 2005
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i hav no idea im hella drunk my loves¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i mean why would someone put this in a sentence

Guy1: *shows le middle finger*
Guy2: Fuck off Jerry
Guy1: u can't drown satan he can fucking swim
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the end of the world's funniest joke as said my Sean Connery (played by Darrel Hammond) in a Saturday Night Live Celbrity Jeoprady Sketch (Alex Trabeck Played by Will Ferrel)
Sean:Whats the Difference and a Mallord with a cold?

Alex: what

Sean: One's a sick duck, I can't remember how it ends, but your mothers a whore.
by tessa{!!!!!} January 4, 2009
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The inability to accept the inevitable or obvious after an event has already happened.
Boss: You're fired!
Loser: You can't fire me, because I QUIT!
Boss: I don't know what you're quitting- I already fired you.
Loser: I QUIT, ya hear?! QUIT!!
Boss (to Secretary): Barbara, call security. We've got another case of "You can't fire me because I quit syndrome"
by Sir Andrew May 20, 2007
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