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cry over spilt milk


To dwell pointlessly on past misfortunes: “I know you wish that you’d handled the project more efficiently, but there’s no use crying over spilt milk.”	1

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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