i cannot help it
1cannot (help) but — formal phrase to have no choice except to do something You cannot help but like her. As I look back over my career, I cannot but smile. Thesaurus: choices and the process of choosingsynonym Main entry …
2cannot help oneself — Cannot refrain from or resist doing something • • • Main Entry: ↑help …
3cannot help — he could not help laughing: BE UNABLE TO STOP, be unable to refrain from, be unable to keep from. → help * * * cannot help ● help * * * cannot help 1 ◇ If you cannot help yourself, you cannot control your actions or stop yourself from doing… …
4cannot help but — is an increasingly common construction, and perhaps now may be said to carry the weight of idiom, but it is also worth noting that it is both unnecessarily wordy and a little irregular. You cannot help but notice what a bad name deregulation has …
5cannot help but — is an increasingly common construction and perhaps now may be said to carry the weight of idiom, but it is also unnecessarily wordy and a little irregular. You cannot help but notice what a bad name deregulation has with voters (Economist)… …
6cannot help — phrasal see cannot but …
7cannot help but — phrasal see cannot but …
8cannot help but — phrasal : cannot but …
9cannot help — he could not help laughing Syn: be unable to stop, be unable to refrain from, be unable to keep from …
10cannot help something — …
