You can't sit on your own arse.

An English idiom demonstrating the fact that one cannot sit on one's own arse.

Well, you know what they say; "You can't sit on your own arse."

you can't get there from here

A situation where streets have been subject to so much traffic calming modification (eg fences, traffic lights, one way streets) that it is impossible to get to the place you want, even though you can see it clearly.

Tourist: "I want to go to that shop but there's nowhere to cross the street."
Local: "You can't get there from here. You have to go back the way you came to the traffic lights, cross over to the other side of the street, walk back this way, go past here, then three blocks down there's a pedestrian crossing, cross back to this side, and head back down this way."
Tourist: "That's ridiculous!"
Local: "Yeah, but what can you do?"

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you can't be just a little bit pregnant

It means that the situation that is being described is a binary. It is something that is either IS or ISN'T. Such as is the case when one is pregnant. One either "is" pregnant or "is not", there is no in between or partial pregnancy. It means it is a situation in which there is no ambiguity or no gray area. You can't be "just a little bit" of certain things.

You can't be just a little bit pregnant when you are talking bankruptcy. You can't be just a little bit bankrupt. You are either bankrupt or not bankrupt.

References:
Lou Mannheim (Hal Holbrook) in the movie "Wall Street" used this phrase while conversing with Bud Fox

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make you an offer you can't refuse

1.make someone an offer and give them the choice of accepting and living, or refusing and dying. Taken from "The Godfather" trilogy.
2. Same as above, but instead of killing them, you take(kill) something or someone very dear to them.

The band-leader refused to let Johnny Fontane out of his contract, so Don Corleone made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

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if you can't beat them, join them

If you are unable to outdo rivals in some endeavor, you might as well cooperate with them and thereby possibly gain an advantage. If your adversaries are stronger than you, it is better to join the adversaries. If you have to give up fighting some group because you can't win, band together with them.

If you can't win the battle, join the winning side. If you can't beat them, join them.

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You can't run from the rickshaw man

Something that's impossible. It's like trying to run from a man that makes his living by running with a rickshaw all day long. He's going to catch you.

Guy - I didn't pay my taxes and now I have to pay even more.

Friend - You dumbass, you can't run from the rickshaw man!

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7 words you can't say on t.v.

The 7 words that will never be spoken on TV. Created by George Carlin. They are shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.

The 7 words you can't say on t.v.:Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.

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