water over the dam
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“It’s water over the dam, under the bridge, however you want to refer to it. Let’s get over it and get on with our lives.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
"It's been 11 years, and a lot of water over the dam," he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2015
“But to me, it’s kind of like water over the dam — it’s done.”
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2013
Eddie said some things he shouldn’t have, but that’s water over the dam.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 12, 2011
Had the bottom been hard, it would have been shallow; but as the bottom was soft and muddy, the rush of the water over the dam in the winter-floods had here made a great hollow.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald
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