It's no use crying over spilt milk.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
覆水难收
spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
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spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom)
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it's no use crying over spilt milk
03
what's done is done and can't be reversed
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the damage is done
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once divorced, there's no reuniting
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 覆水难收 actually appears in real sentences.
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ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 覆水难收
What does 覆水难收 mean in Chinese?
覆水难收 (fùshuǐnánshōu) means spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom).
How do you pronounce 覆水难收?
覆水难收 is pronounced fùshuǐnánshōu.
Is 覆水难收 an HSK word?
覆水难收 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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