can it
Verb
Meaning
can it (third-person singular simple present cans it, present participle canning it, simple past and past participle canned it)
(idiomatic, imperative) To silence; to quit doing something; to put an end to something.
Can it, you two! I'm trying to work.
I told him to can it, 'cause he was getting to be annoying.
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The summit of evil, the crime most natural to the devil, pride, was born of knowledge. But if this is so, how can it be possible that all the passions result from ignorance? Does knowledge purify the psyche? Paul says: Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
How can it be that institutions which serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed toward establishing them?
Tis gold, Which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief; Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what Can it not do, and undo?