Idiom
Etymology:
Of Native American origin it describes the inability of a person to successfully walk through tall grass. Before colonization the great plains of North American were covered with large sections of tall grasses. Instead of going around acres of tall grass, people could walk straight through them.
The implication is that a capable adult is both tall enough to see above shoulder height tall grass and wise enough to navigate and form a path through tall grass that is above their head. Children and people that are not intelligent will get lost in the tall grass and need help to get out or even die.
Usually applied to a person, but could apply to a thing.
Similar to: If you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen, shape up or ship out
1: transitive, present tense
a: Describing a person that cannot handle the situation they are in.
b: Describing a person that is not intelligent enough to figure out something that others easily can.
2: rhetorical question
Implying that the person being asked is not keeping up with the group or not able to handle the task they were given.
Etymology:
Of Native American origin it describes the inability of a person to successfully walk through tall grass. Before colonization the great plains of North American were covered with large sections of tall grasses. Instead of going around acres of tall grass, people could walk straight through them.
The implication is that a capable adult is both tall enough to see above shoulder height tall grass and wise enough to navigate and form a path through tall grass that is above their head. Children and people that are not intelligent will get lost in the tall grass and need help to get out or even die.
Usually applied to a person, but could apply to a thing.
Similar to: If you can't handle the heat get out of the kitchen, shape up or ship out
1: transitive, present tense
a: Describing a person that cannot handle the situation they are in.
b: Describing a person that is not intelligent enough to figure out something that others easily can.
2: rhetorical question
Implying that the person being asked is not keeping up with the group or not able to handle the task they were given.
1a: "Jim can't walk in the tall grass. He got promoted to sergeant and just took a month long stress leave"
1b: "I've been training the new hire for a week now and she still can't figure out how to clock in.....she can't walk in the tall grass."
2: "Hey Ron, Jim was late and installed the wiring for 2 rooms today but you were here all day and barely got half of one done. Can't walk in the tall grass?"
1b: "I've been training the new hire for a week now and she still can't figure out how to clock in.....she can't walk in the tall grass."
2: "Hey Ron, Jim was late and installed the wiring for 2 rooms today but you were here all day and barely got half of one done. Can't walk in the tall grass?"
by Babakanoosh March 30, 2022
Get the Can't walk in the tall grassmug. by hellodude2134 January 24, 2019
Get the You can't block thismug. Right. Because of mutually assured destruction... UNLESS... Unless, of course, someone seized control of all the nukes at the same time (somehow)... And then whoever THAT GUY wanted to LOSE the war... Would be UNABLE TO RETALIATE. WOW! BUT I DON'T KNOW GUYS! THAT SOUNDS VAGUELY ANALOGOUS TO SOMETHING I READ ON URBAN DICTIONARY! UNABLE TO RETALIATE!? Well, then THAT GUY could just choose winners and losers completely arbitrarily, right?
Hym "Superpowers can't win wars against eachother... Unless THAT. Unless that thing I just said. Because then it wouldn't be mutual. Is THAT what Emma mean when she brought up MUTUAL? Why did she bring that up? Is it NOT THAT anymore?"
by Hym Iam July 12, 2025
Get the Superpowers can't win wars against eachothermug. a subconscious mess up of Flynn my brother,
Message from subconscious was,
That fat milf my master not mark ya,
Milf is a girl name genitalia
Message from subconscious was,
That fat milf my master not mark ya,
Milf is a girl name genitalia
I can't understand flim half the time, but now he has a pedophile watching him some father I had named brain chose it, even explained it.
by Mineowedwus August 12, 2022
Get the I can't understand flim half the timemug. Is that why I lost time those 3 times? Did you try to kill me? Is that what happened there? I heard someone got stabbed 47 times at a Kwik Trip. Is that why I lost 2 hours that one time?
Some old guy "Can't stab Hym, can't shoot Hym..."
Hym "What are you insinuating? Did you fucking stab me? Did one of these cocksuckers stab me? Not smart. Could have killed yourself doing that you know."
Hym "What are you insinuating? Did you fucking stab me? Did one of these cocksuckers stab me? Not smart. Could have killed yourself doing that you know."
by Hym Iam July 8, 2025
Get the Can't stab Hym, can't shoot Hymmug. Can't Control Time is a general phrase people use who are unwilling to accept responsibility for their own faulty time management.
7:30 am
Person A: What are you still doing sleeping Person B, I told you we have to be at the kids school at 7 45?!?
Person B: God, don't get so mad, I can't control time
Person A: What are you still doing sleeping Person B, I told you we have to be at the kids school at 7 45?!?
Person B: God, don't get so mad, I can't control time
by DarthFox January 31, 2017
Get the Can't Control Timemug. And not without paying.
Hym "No, you can't. And not without paying. You need to do what I'm telling you or I need to do what I said I would do and there is no in-between there."
by Hym Iam September 9, 2025
Get the No, you can'tmug.