you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
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Proverb
you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
- Once something is said or done, it cannot be unsaid or undone.
- 2010, Erik Larsen, Savage Dragon #165:
- 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.
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