grain of salt
there is no spoon
carry water
reality bites
thgilsag
gaslight
The origin of the term is the 1938 British thriller play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton, which provided the source material for the 1940 British film, Gaslight. The film was then remade in 1944 in America – also as Gaslight – and it is this film which has since become the primary reference point for the term.[4][5][6] Set among London's elite during the Victorian era, it portrays a seemingly genteel husband using lies and manipulation to isolate his heiress wife and persuade her that she is mentally unwell so that he can steal from her. The term "gaslighting" itself is neither in the screenplay nor mentioned in either the films or the play in any context. In the story, the husband secretly dims and brightens the indoor gas-powered lighting but insists his wife is imagining it, making her think she is going insane.
you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.
– H. R. Haldeman (to John Dean, 8 April 1973)
The West Wing (1999) -TILLINGHOUSE- You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
The Boys (2019) - "there's just no putting the toothpaste back in the tube."
The Tide is High
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
Your number one
It's not the things you do that tease and hurt me bad
But it's the way you do the things you do to me
The tide is high but I'm holding on
