Idiom
can't stand
Meaning
cannot put up with
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I can't stand the noise in this room.”
“She can't stand people who talk loudly on their phones during the movie.”
“He realized that he simply could not stand the constant dishonesty of his business partner any longer.”
Examples
simple
“I can't stand the noise in this room.”
contextual
“She can't stand people who talk loudly on their phones during the movie.”
complex
“He realized that he simply could not stand the constant dishonesty of his business partner any longer.”
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