cry over spilled milk

How to use cry over spilled milk in a sentence

• But Henry the Fourth of England was not one to delay in action, nor to "cry over spilled milk."

  Historic Boys | Elbridge Streeter Brooks

• "I am not up to cry over spilled milk," said Tirrel with his customary bluntness.

  The Secret of the League | Ernest Bramah

• He murmured something about it being useless to cry over spilled milk—he tried to turn the conversation to other things.

  A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly | Henry James