Significato: as best he could

è il meglio che può fare

could Idioma

an offer I couldn't refuse

an offer that contains a threat or force, a request that is a command The border guards invited me to stay for further questioning - it was an offer I couldn't refuse.

couldn't believe my ears

(See can't believe my ears)

if looks could kill

the look on your face was evil or hateful If looks could kill, I'd be dead. Are you mad at me or something?

offer I couldn't refuse

(See an offer I couldn't refuse)

so small you could barely swing a cat

very small room, narrow room The bedroom was so small you could barely swing a cat in it.

couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery

totally incompetent

couldn't stop a pig in an alleyway

having bow legs. Occasionally heard as couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel, - a Midlands/Northern variation whereby ginnel is dialect for alleyway

Wild horses couldn't drag

Idiom(s): Wild horses couldn't drag sb.

Theme: FORCE

nothing could force someone (to go somewhere). (Informal.)
• I refuse to go to that meeting! Wild horses couldn't drag me.
• Wild horses couldn't drag her to that game.

so still you could hear a pin drop

Idiom(s): so still you could hear a pin drop AND so quiet you could hear a pin drop

Theme: SILENCE

very quiet. (Also with can.)
• When I came into the room, it was so still you could hear a pin drop. Then everyone shouted, "Happy birthday!"
• Please be quiet. Be so quiet you can hear a pin drop.

couldn't care less

Idiom(s): could(n't) care less

Theme: CARING - LACKING

unable to care at all. (Informal. Could care less is considered slang.)
• John couldn't care less whether he goes to the party or not.
• So she won first place. I couldn't care less.
• I could care less if I live or die.

could do with

Idiom(s): could do with sb or sth

Theme: NEED

to want or need someone or something; to benefit from someone or something.
• I could do with a nice cool drink right now.
• I could do with some help on this project.
• This house could do with some cleaning up.
• They said they could do with John to help them finish faster.
• My car could do with a bigger engine.

so quiet you could hear a pin drop

Could eat a horse

If you are very hungry, you could eat a horse.

Couldn't give two hoots

If you couldn't give two hoots about something, you don't care at all about it.

Face only a mother could love

When someone has a face only a mother could love, they are ugly.

You could have knocked me down with a feather

This idiom is used to mean that the person was very shocked or surprised.

couldn't care less|care|care less

v. phr., informal To be indifferent; not care at all. The students couldn't care less about the band; they talk all through the concert. Also heard increasingly as "could care less" (nonstandard in this form.)

more than one could shake a stick at|shake|stick

adj. phr., informal Very many; a great many; more than you can count. There were more people at the game than you could shake a stick at. I had more assignments for homework than I could shake a stick at.

could

could
see can do with; see with half an eye. Also see under can; couldn't.

couldn't

couldn't
In addition to the idioms beginning with couldn't, also see not hurt a fly. Also see under can't.
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- couldn't care less

wild horses couldn't drag me

wild horses couldn't drag me
Nothing could induce or persuade me, as in Wild horses couldn't drag me to that nightclub. This idiom, always in negative form, is believed to have replaced wild horses couldn't draw it from me, referring to the medieval torture of using horses to stretch a prisoner and thereby force a confession. [First half of 1800s]

you could cut it with a knife

you could cut it with a knife
Alluding to something very thick, such as muggy air or a heavy accent; also, a very tense atmosphere. For example, The smoke was so thick you could cut it with a knife, or When I walked in they all stopped talking and you could cut the air with a knife. [Colloquial; late 1800s]

More Idioms/Phrases

yes and no you bet your ass you can lead a horse to water but you can't make i you can't win you can't win 'em all you could cut it with a knife you know something you name it you never can tell you said it

English Vocalbulary

as bitter as gall as black as a crow as black as coal as black as ink as black as night as black as pitch as black as soot as busy as a bee as cheap as dirt as clay in the hands of the potter as cold as ice as cold as marble as concerns as cunning as a fox as dark as midnight as dark as pitch as dead as a doornail as death