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Here is the sentence that includes the phrase.

> なんと 忘れてしまった！ 格好だけに **こうしちゃおれんな** ！
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What does the phrase 「こうしちゃおれんな」mean?
こうしちゃおれん is a contraction of こうしてはいられない. It's used by an ojisan-type speaker.
ては becomes ちゃ in colloquial speech. おれん is a colloquial negative form of おれる,
which is a potential form of おる, which is a little dialectal variant of いる.

こうしてはいられない literally means "I/We cannot be doing this", but it's an idiom that
means something along the lines of "It's of no use staying here", "We're
wasting time now", "(I just noticed) I must handle this now".
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