"The toothpaste is out of the tube" nghĩa là gì?


"The toothpaste is out of the tube" = kem đánh răng đã ra ngoài tuýp -> nghĩa là tình huống không thể đảo ngược/phục hồi lại như cũ. 

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For now, the toothpaste is out of the tube, there’s nothing that can be done, except (ngoài việc) keep your eyes on Microsoft Security Response Center and Patch Tuesday alerts (cảnh báo).

One former executive goes so far as to shrug that there’s little that can be done, as “the toothpaste is out of the tube.” Of all the talking heads, pleasantly prattling (nói vớ vẩn) away about business models, only Zuboff comes close to the scale of the problem when she says that the market in data — “human futures” — should be abolished.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s exceedingly (cực kỳ) hard to get it back in. And mistakes at the first trick are hard to overcome (vượt qua) even if you have 12 more tricks to do it.

Now all of a sudden that they’ve been called out now they want to make it good. Well, the toothpaste is out of the tube. It’s too late and now we want to restore justice (công lý) we want to restore civility.

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