don't cry over spilled milk

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

They don't cry over spilled milk, let alone throw their heads back and screech.

He describes his parents as repeating ad nauseam the phrases "Never say die" and "Don't cry over spilled milk".

His involvement with the organization CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) has rewritten the rule of his childhood, Don't cry over spilled milk.

My husband and I actually had an argument over the critical issue of whether the phrase 'Don't cry over spilled milk' refers to the mother or the child".

They say don't cry over spilled milk, but I have worked in NICUs and PICUs and I can tell you that a drop, an ounce, a whole frozen milksicle of hard-earned maternal breast milk is certainly worth crying over.

Don't cry over spilled milk!

*"Do not cry over spilled milk," instructs a scruffily-dressed father on Page 12 when his son has lost his kite.

It seemed to make sense at the time; he lost the historical wager and so did the party; history, he says, does not cry over spilled milk.

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Indeed, the basic principle taught in the first weeks of any elementary economics course is to let bygones be bygones – don't cry over spilt milk.

He was Texas-blunt on other issues too: "Don't cry over spilt milk," he advised coastal residents threatened by an oil spill from a well for which his company had leased some of the equipment.