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can't stand
Also,. Thoroughly dislike; be unable to put up with something or someone. For example, I can't stand the sight of her; she's obnoxious, or I can't bear to leave the country, or I can't stomach a filthy kitchen. The oldest of these synonymous expressions is can't abide, which Shakespeare used in 2 Henry IV (3:2): “She could not abide Master Shallow.” Can't stand dates from the early 1600; can't bear dates from about 1700 and often but not always is used with an infinitive; can't stomach dates from the late 1600s and today is less common than the others.
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It's nearly 50 years since The Police released their debut album featuring tracks such as Roxanne and Can't Stand Losing You.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk, who supposedly was moving on from politics, posted on the social media platform he owns.
“I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk wrote on his social media platform, X. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.”
"I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore," Musk wrote in a post to X on Tuesday.
Elon Musk hit out at President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" tax and spending bill, posting on X that he "can't stand" the legislation and describing it as a "disgusting abomination".
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