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let bygones be bygones

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Let bygones be bygones. (slightly formal)
something that you say in order to tell someone to forget about unpleasant things that have happened in the past. Why can't you put all that bad feeling behind you and let bygones be bygones?
See also: let

let bygones be bygones
forget about unpleasant things that have happened in the past. There is a feeling here that we should let bygones be bygones and move on to more important things.
Usage notes: sometimes used in the form bygones are bygones: What is past history is history, what is done is finished, and bygones are bygones.
See also: let

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Good land, I'm willing to let bygones be bygones, I'm sure.
She has been wrong all through, and I would have said so before but that I wanted to be reconciled to her and to let bygones be bygones.
"No, no," said the little man with a laugh, "we will let bygones be bygones.
 
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