Idiom
spilt milk
Meaning
Something that cannot be undone.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Don't worry about the mistake; it is just spilt milk.”
“You lost the game, but there is no use crying over spilt milk.”
“He realized that dwelling on his past failures was merely crying over spilt milk, so he focused his energy on the future instead.”
Examples
simple
“Don't worry about the mistake; it is just spilt milk.”
contextual
“You lost the game, but there is no use crying over spilt milk.”
complex
“He realized that dwelling on his past failures was merely crying over spilt milk, so he focused his energy on the future instead.”
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