"There is no use crying over spilt milk"
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It means that you shouldn't get upset over something that's already happened, you can't change it now.(Original post by dignityinclay)
What is the meaning behind this phrase ?
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Re: "There is no use crying over spilt milk"All I know is that I've love to have been the first officer arriving at this scene to a distraught delivery driver:
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Re: "There is no use crying over spilt milk"Actually I think it's more to do with events which occur outside one's control, rather than decisions one makes.(Original post by Ryan_94)
There's no point in dwelling on past decisions that cannot be changed!
Spilt milk, after all, is almost always an accident - an unforseeable and unavoidable mishap.
There's no point wasting your time being upset by unforeseen and unfortunate events - that will only set you back even further than the event itself. -
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Re: "There is no use crying over spilt milk""Police later said that 'there was no sense making a mountain out of a molehill' and the road had quickly been cleared".(Original post by ThisIsTheLife)
All I know is that I've love to have been the first officer arriving at this scene to a distraught delivery driver:
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Re: "There is no use crying over spilt milk"The OED says it means "it is futile to regret what cannot be altered or undone." Dictionaries have virtually all of these definitions!
I know you didn't ask this, but I doubt the correctness of the phrase. The loss of the metaphorical 'milk' will obviously be upsetting, 'milk' standing for the now spoilt promise of something valuable or somehow nourishing. Generally bottling up feelings of loss and frustration can lead to emotional unwellness. So the act of crying over 'spilt milk' may be very useful.
Of course it may be even more useful sometimes to forget about it and/or mop it up and find some more. Figuratively speaking, of course. -
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Re: "There is no use crying over spilt milk"^^^^^^^^^(Original post by R4INBOW)
Get the **** over it
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