"You can't make that cat walk backwards."

[Jonathan Lighter]

Says law professor Jonathan Turley on CNN.

He means, "You can't take it back or unring the bell or push the toothpaste
back in the tube or the genie back in the bottle or anything like that."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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