let bygones be bygones
phrase
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.
Why can't you let bygones be bygones and put it all behind you?
My mother thinks I should let bygones be bygones but I'm struggling with it.
After all these years, surely it's time to let bygones be bygones.
If she's willing, I'm willing to let bygones be bygones.
See also
bygone noun
(Definition of let bygones be bygones from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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