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What's done cannot be undone.

Prov. You cannot change what has already happened. Jill: I wish I hadn't insulted Maria. Jane: What's done cannot be undone. Jill soon regretted telling Mike that she loved him, but she knew that what's done cannot be undone.
See also: cannot, done
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Undone Chocolate said it believes Affinity Beverage Group has the right platform and resources to take its vision to the next level.
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Previously, shirts buttoned up to the neck with ties were expected for work and formal events, one button undone with a tie for the end of the working day, two undone for a good night out and three only for those rare tanned and toned few.
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One day in Dunedin, Donna eyed an inane dandy and annoyed Ned; union undone, innuendo ended in adieu [Pat Donaldson]
Inane addenda
3 : to cause the ruin or failure of <He was undone by greed.
undo
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There were combinations such as phallologocentrism, or the madness of fraternocracy, which had to be undone, turned around, again and again, looking ahead.
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While chatting away with co-host Eamonn Holmes, Phillips, from Haverfordwest, was unaware that her blouse had become undone and had slowly worked itself open.
Oh, I've come undone ... you could have told me
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Come Undone
During a two-day trial at Maidstone Magistrates Court, the 21-stone defendant claimed that the zip of his green cords came undone accidentally as he sat down, and that he was too fat to notice.
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Recent Republican efforts have undone that work, notes McCluskey, who further argues that GOP proposals demonstrate "the hypocrisy and stupidity of complicating the tax code.
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As Rumrich appeals to "feminine" principles of nature, wildness, and generation to subvert a masculinist Milton - redefining chaos itself as the "feminine otherness" (145) of God - one cultural stereotype is undone by reaffirming another.
Milton Unbound: Controversy and Reinterpretation
Among the highlights of a brilliant album are the empowering ``Woman Undone,'' the life-affirming ``Still in Love,'' the sensual ``Sunburn,'' the touching ``John Fell off the Work-Around,'' the blues classic ``Nobody'' and the Judy Garland tribute ``Saint Judy.
SOUND CHECK
The best explanation may be that generations of segregation and entrenched attitudes take generations to undo -- and we don't know yet if they can ever be completely undone.
The Band Played Dixie: Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss
Nothing was undone by a world; or with world nothing wasn't undone that wasn't already undone.
At earth
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