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don't cry over spilled milk cry over spilt milkTo be upset over something that cannot be fixed, often something minor. Please calm down, you're just crying 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 just crying over spilt milk. She just fell down and ripped her stockings—she'll be fine."See also: cry, milk, over, spiltdon't cry over spilled milkDon't be upset over something that cannot be fixed. Said especially of something trivial or minor. Oh, honey, you just ripped your stockings a little. You'll be fine—don't cry over spilled milk. Don't go crying over spilled milk. We already submitted the report, so we can't fix it now.See also: cry, milk, over, spillcry over spilt (or spilled) milk lament or make a fuss about a misfortune that has happened and that cannot be changed or reversed.See also: cry, milk, over, spiltcrying over spilled milk, it's no good/useDon’t regret what’s done and can’t be helped. That milk once spilled cannot be recovered must have been observed from the first day milk was put into a container. “No weeping for shed milk” appears in two seventeenth-century proverb collections (James Howell, 1659; John Ray, 1678), and the idea is still so well known that the mere words “spilled milk” convey the entire cliché. See also: crying, good, no, over, spill, use |