cannot afford
Antonyms
Examples
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
He is still alive because he cannot afford a funeral.