Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

A "hip" expression of the 1960's-70's that advises you not to do something risky unless you are willing and able to accept the full weight of the consequences.

Ironically popularized by the theme song to the TV show "Baretta" starring Robert Blake.

Fred: "I'm losing my license for drunk driving..."

Charlie: "Quit complaining! You know what they tell you: 'don't do the crime if you can't do the time!'"

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Once you go blue, you can't undo.

The phenomenon in which a normal conversation turns blue, becoming so riddled with sexual innuendo that it's rendered nearly impossible to steer back in a non-pervy direction. Every innocent comment starts to become a dirty double entendre, until eventually the entire conversation turns into a complete smut-fest from which there is no return.

Girl: Ah, who doesn't love stripper zombies in Portland? That'd go down like Jesus on a velociraptor.

Guy: I have to admit, when I first read 'go down'... I had rather blasphemous thoughts.

~ten minutes later, during which this term is invented~

Girl: Hmm, this Urban Dictionary thing is quite fun. Something for the annals of history.

Guy: Two n's - one 'n' is bad.

Girl: Yeah, I always thought that 'annals' was an odd word.
It really could so very easily be another.

Guy: Terribly easily. So, how is the entry? ...Oh, Jesus!!!!

Girl: Once you go blue, you can't undo.

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you can't have your cake and eat it too

This phrase is easier to understand if it is read as "You can't eat your cake, and have it too". Obviously once you've eaten your cake, you won't have it any more. Used for expressing the impossibility of having something both ways, if those two ways conflict.

He works so hard to pay for that fancy house of his that he never has any time to stay home and enjoy it.

Yeah, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

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Don't Bring The Brullox If You Can't Handle The Rullex

When a "self-proclaimed rapper" gets high, then pissed off and tries to rhyme the words "brawl" and "ruckus," the words must be changed into words that don't exist, thus, "Don't bring the brawl if you can't handle the ruckus" becomes "Don't bring the brullox if you can't handle the rullex."

"Don't bring the brullox if you can't handle the rullex."

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"you can't have your cake and eat it too"

You can't keep your old love while trying out a new one.

"you can't have your cake and eat it too" trying to hold onto something - an uncut cake - while enjoying eating it.

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If you can't soar with the Eagles, don't fly with the flock

If you can't soar with the Eagles, don't fly with the flock

The complete opposite of if you can't beat them, join them
It means if you can't be the best then you may as well be nothing at all.

person 1: I gave into peer pressure last night and tried crystal math
person 2: If you can't soar with the Eagles, don't fly with the flock
person 1: oh.

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if you can't stand the heat , get out the kitchen

1 . Basically , if you can't stand the stress , leave the situation.
2. If you don't like it GTFO

Me: I think planking is the dumbest thing ever
Friend: Well I like it
Me: My facebook status , my opinion . "if you can't stand the heat , get out the kitchen" & mind your business.

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