put the toothpaste back in the tube (English, verb)
expansion: put the toothpaste back in the tube (third-person singular simple present puts the toothpaste back in the tube, present participle putting the toothpaste back in the tube, simple past and past participle put the toothpaste back in the tube)
Senses:
glosses: To revert a situation; to put things back as they were before something (usually an unwelcome thing) became a reality.
tags: idiomatic
raw_tags: in the negative
Forms:
form: puts the toothpaste back in the tube
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: putting the toothpaste back in the tube
tags: participle
present
form: put the toothpaste back in the tube
tags: participle
past
form: put the toothpaste back in the tube
tags: past