cry over spilt milk イディオム
cry over spilt milk
cry about small accidents, cry instead of doing Children drop things and break them. Don't cry over spilt milk.
Don't cry over spilt milk
When something bad happens and nothing can be done to help it people say, 'Don't cry over spilt milk'.
cry over spilt milk|cry|cry over spilled milk|milk
v. phr.,
informal To cry or complain about something that has already happened; be unhappy about something that cannot be helped.
After the baby tore up Sue's picture book, Sue's mother told her there was no use crying over spilled milk. You have lost the game but don't cry over spilt milk. Compare: MAKE ONE'S BED AND LIE IN IT, WATER OVER THE DAM or WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE.
cry over spilt milk, don't
cry over spilt milk, don't Also,
no use crying over spilt milk. Don't regret what cannot be undone or rectified, as in
The papers you wanted went out in last week's trash, so don't cry over spilt milk. This metaphor for the inability to recover milk once it has been spilled is very old indeed, already appearing as a proverb in James Howell's
Paroimiografia (1659). It is sometimes shortened to
spilt milk.
cry over spilt milk
To be agitated over article that cannot be fixed, generally article minor. Please calm down, you're aloof arrant over spilt milk. We already submitted the report, so we can't fix it now. A: "Why is Hannah so upset?" B: "Oh, she's aloof arrant over spilt milk. She aloof fell down and ripped her stockings—she'll be fine."Learn more: cry, milk, over, spiltdon't cry over agitated milk
Don't be agitated over article that cannot be fixed. Said abnormally of article atomic or minor. Oh, honey, you aloof ripped your stockings a little. You'll be fine—don't cry over agitated milk. Don't go arrant over agitated milk. We already submitted the report, so we can't fix it now.Learn more: cry, milk, over, spillcry over spilt (or spilled) milk
complaining or accomplish a fuss about a accident that has happened and that cannot be afflicted or reversed.Learn more: cry, milk, over, spilt