bygoneadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈbaɪ.ɡɒn/us/ˈbaɪ.ɡɑːn/belonging to or happening in a past time:
a bygone era
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In the past
- ago
- any more idiom
- anymore
- back in the day idiom
- before
- clock
- dot
- late
- memory
- more
- no longer idiom
- of late idiom
- of old idiom
- old
- past
- the mists of time idiom
- the status quo ante
- the week/month/year before last idiom
- the year dot idiom
- use
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bygonenoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈbaɪ.ɡɒn/us/ˈbaɪ.ɡɑːn/let bygones be bygones
used to tell someone that they should forget about unpleasant things that happened in the past, and especially to forgive and forget something bad that someone has done to them :
Just let bygones be bygones and be friends again.
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Making & accepting apologies
- absolution
- afraid
- atonement
- conciliate
- cut
- excusable
- excuse
- excuse/pardon my French! idiom
- forge
- make it up to sb idiom
- mend
- mend your fences idiom
- overlook
- pardon (me) idiom
- recompense
- reconcile
- reconciliation
- repentant
- take sb back
- unrepentant
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