Hello and welcome to The English We Speak,
where we explain phrases used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them as well.
I'm Feifei and I'm here with Beth.
How are you?
Hi Feifei.
I'm OK,
although my younger sister is staying with me at the moment and she expects me to do everything for her.
This morning she wanted me to bring her breakfast in bed.
I said you can moan all you like.
I am not making you breakfast in bed.
Oh no. Although all you like, that's an interesting phrase.
It means a person can do or say something as much as they want to,
but... it won't change the situation.
Yes, it's used when complaints or actions won't have any effect.
Like my sister complaining, there was no way I was going to make her breakfast in bed.
Exactly.
The decision was final.
This reminds me of when I was at school,
when our teacher used to give us lots of homework at school holidays and we complained.
But the teacher always told us, you can complain all you like,