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spilt milk

noun

Definitions

  1. Something that cannot be undone.

    • It is not only lost, but in its spilling stains and spoils gown or carpet, and should it fall upon the bare ground, can add nothing to the producing powers of the earth; it is always just spilt milk, and not worth crying over.
    • Even looking back is foolish—that's just spilt milk. You've got just two possibilities: stop dead in your tracks, or go on.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spilt milk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA