When you voluntarily lose (to make someone feel better, to end an argument), and then the situation gets even worse. So, what you thought you would gain by losing on purpose is lost anyway.
It’s a colloquial equivalent to paving the road to hell with good intentions.
(A lot of people writing their definitions for this are trying to make logic out of the phrasing but weren’t around when this phrase was more popular, leading to incorrect definitions.)
I let my spouse win the argument to calm down the situation, and now I’m getting criticized for not sticking up for myself. I can’t win for losing!
Basically you cannot train a woman to do the things you want.
Dishes are dirty, she doesn’t know how to cook… welp, you “can’t walk a cat”
When your trying to get with someone but it’s not working
Ethan tried to pull that girl but he can’t get through the window
A rare illness were when your eyes are closed you can’t see
Yo dude I can’t see when my eyes are closed
Phrase One of the biggest lies ever told by the rich to make the poor feel like they don’t need to work harder.
Rich man: money can’t buy happiness
Poor man now feels like he’s happy for what he has
One foot on the brake and one on the gas, hey!
Well, there's too much traffic, I can't pass, no!
So I tried my best illegal move
Well, baby, black and white come and touched my groove again!
Gonna write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55! Oh No!
Uh!
So I signed my name on number 24, hey!
Yeah the judge said, "Boy, just one more...
We're gonna throw your ass in the city joint"
Looked me in the eye, said, "You get my point?"
I said Yea!, Oh yea!
Write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I can't drive 55!
Oh, yea!
I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
I can't drive 55!
Uh!
When I drive that slow, you know it's hard to steer.
And I can't get get my care out of second gear.
What used to take two hours now takes all day. Huh!
It took me 16 hours to get to L.A.
Gonna write me up a 125
Post my face wanted dead or alive
Take my license, all that jive
I Can’t Drive 55!
No, no no,
I can't drive...
(I can't drive 55!)
I can't drive...
(I can't drive 55!)
I can't drive 55!
si stop taking you can’t tell me what to do so shut up
shut up you can’t tell me what to do