The word 'bygones' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used as a noun or an adjective to refer to something from the past that is no longer of importance or relevance. Example: "Let's put all of our past grievances aside and focus on the present. After all, bygones should be bygones." (In this sentence, 'bygones' is used as a noun to mean past disagreements or issues that should be forgotten or forgiven.) Another example: "The two friends decided to patch up their relationship and leave their bygones behind them." (Here, 'bygones' is used as an adjective to describe the past issues that the friends are choosing to move past.).
"Let bygones be bygones," said Khieu Samphan, head of state between 1975 and 1979, when the savage rule of the Khmers Rouges over Cambodia resulted in nearly 2m deaths.
Whatever the answer, Sherwood seems happy to let bygones be bygones.
Barack Obama's tentative step When bygones aren't Late but not empty-handed They just won't give up ReprintsAmerican officials have given scant detail, but it is thought that the CIA will co-ordinate the supply of light arms to the rebels.
But Mr Obama is said to want to let bygones be bygones.In the House some personnel changes portend a leftward shift.
Barack Obama's tentative step When bygones aren't Late but not empty-handed They just won't give up ReprintsAcross the country, relations between Qaddafi's erstwhile supporters and the rebels who toppled him are still bitter.
Barack Obama's tentative step When bygones aren't Late but not empty-handed They just won't give up ReprintsThat is understandable but unjustified.
THOSE who want rival Palestinian factions to let bygones be bygones should have been cheering.
Barack Obama's tentative step When bygones aren't Late but not empty-handed They just won't give up ReprintsMrs Ravalomanana and Messrs Rajoelina and Ratsiraka continued to stand their ground, plunging the country into a crisis.
As Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs, says, Mr Putin is "sincerely anti-American," not because of his KGB past, but because of "his experiences with Bush-era America .The "reset" by the Obama administration in early 2009 was meant to respond to this by letting bygones be bygones.
But his own belief in letting bygones be bygones had a different foundation: "If you don't forgive, you are going to destroy yourself... ......As for Mr Donaldson, he practised the Christian faith in which he was brought up, but drew a different conclusion: "If people want to look at what the Lord said, there needs to be justice served on Earth".
Moreover, no one was willing to let bygones be bygones: they all assumed that a price rise this year would recur or even accelerate next year.These two problems--unstable prices and dollar debts--reinforced each other.
