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toothpaste is out of the tube

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English

Syllables
tooth-paste is out of the -tube
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

A situation that cannot be recovered or reversed back to its original state.

Etymology

From the practical impossibility of getting toothpaste back into a tube once it is squirted out.

Inflected Forms

the toothpaste is out of the tube (canonical)

Phrases

unring a bell let the cat out of the bag genie is out of the bottle

Frequently Paired Words

unring a bell let the cat out of the bag genie is out of the bottle

Questions

What does toothpaste is out of the tube mean?
A situation that cannot be recovered or reversed back to its original state.
Where does toothpaste is out of the tube come from?
From the practical impossibility of getting toothpaste back into a tube once it is squirted out.

How to pronounce toothpaste is out of the tube

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