Yes-man: Someone who always agrees to what his boss or someone in a position of authority is saying.

You are what you eat: This means a person’s health depends on the kind of diet they take, if you take a healthy diet you will be healthy.

You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar: It means that you can get people to listen to you and do what you want if you are sweet and polite to them rather than by being rude.

You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family: It means that you can’t choose the kind of people to have as relatives, so you have to accept them as they are and adjust to them.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink: This idiom implies that while you can guide/offer someone something that is good for them, but it is up to them to take it and make the best use of it.

You can say that again: Another way of telling someone that he or she is right and that you agree with them.

You can’t have your cake and eat it: It means that you cannot have two good things at the same time.

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear: It means that if something is not worthwhile or good, you can’t use it to make something of good value.

You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs: You have to make some sacrifices to do or get something; to achieve something you have to suffer a few losses too.

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks: It means it is very hard to make someone change the way they do something because they have been doing it that way for a very long time, especially used in the case of people who are older and set in their ways.

You can’t unring a bell: Once something is done, you can’t undo it so you have to face the consequences of that action.— Ahzam Ahmed

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