覆ふく水すい盆ぼんに返かえらず

expression

what's done is done; no use crying over spilt milk

Proverb meaning that once something has happened, it cannot be undone, similar to the English 'it's no use crying over spilt milk'. The literal image is of water spilled from a basin that cannot be returned.

• もう終おわったことだ。覆ふく水すい盆ぼんに返かえらずというだろう。

  It's already over. As they say, what's done is done.

• 過か去この失しっ敗ぱいを悔くやんでも覆ふく水すい盆ぼんに返かえらずだ。

  There's no use crying over spilt milk; regretting past mistakes won't change anything.