覆水难收 / 覆水難收

fù shuǐ nán shōu

Meaning

• spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom)
• it's no use crying over spilt milk
• what's done is done and can't be reversed
• the damage is done
• once divorced, there's no reuniting

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Example sentences

• 覆水难收。

  覆水難收。

  fù shuǐ nán shōu。

  Spilled water cannot be gathered up again.

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