Word info

can do with

Verb

Meaning

can do with (third-person singular simple present can do with, no present participle, simple past could do with, no past participle)

(transitive, usually with could) To need; to want; to be in a position to benefit from.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. Stephen Stills

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. Jane Austen

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. Ernest Hemingway

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality. Robert M. Pirsig

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. Robert Burton

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. Haruki Murakami

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